Anyone still care about Cygwin? (was Re: [CORE] GPL Source and Copyright Questions)
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Cc: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>, "Bort, Paul" <pbort@tmwsystems.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-06-23T14:24:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes: >> Actually, my gripe about this one is that it wasn't detected promptly. >> That patch went in two weeks ago; we should have known about >> the problem >> within a couple days at most. Seems like the Windows members of the >> buildfarm don't run often enough. The whole point of the buildfarm is >> to spot problems while the code is still fresh in mind, no? > I think that speaks for the current usage of the cygwin port. Snake runs > native builds daily, but like Magnus and his dev box there's no way I'm > letting Cygwin anywhere near it. Istr that the only vaguely active > Cygwin member is Andrew's laptop. Well, "lack of interest" is certainly adequate reason to decommission a port. If we can't find anyone who cares enough about Cygwin to host a regularly-scheduled buildfarm member, I'm for blowing it off. regards, tom lane