Re: Visual Studio 2012 RC

james <james@mansionfamily.plus.com>

From: james <james@mansionfamily.plus.com>

To: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndQuadrant.com>

Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Brar Piening <brar@gmx.de>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2013-01-27T19:48:02Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

> Anyway, this is getting way off track. The point is that the MS SDKs and
> compilers are a bit of a mess and that MinGW support is useful because
> we can't rely on them continuing to offer free SDKs and compilers in future.

Well, more compilers are always useful, but complaining that Microsoft 
might withdraw their working compilers smacks of 'what if?' paranoia. 
What if mingw support for Win64 was (sometimes/often/always/still) a bit 
rubbish?  Oh wait ...