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Re: [CORE] GPL Source and Copyright Questions

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Bort, Paul" <pbort@tmwsystems.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-06-23T12:26:41Z
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Dave Page wrote:

> 
>Is there any real reason to continue to support Cygwin? We've always
>said it's not a first class port, and now we have the native port which
>is it seems somewhat pointless expending further effort on it.
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Some people still use it for development, I believe. Similar arguments 
were used against our having the Win32 port in the first place. 
Personally I am inclined to support whatever platforms we reasonably 
can, and leave the choice to users rather than make it for them.

cheers

andrew