Re: Remove MSVC scripts from the tree

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-11-10T07:38:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On 09.11.23 00:05, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> Attached is a Perl version of the sed script, converted by hand (so not the
>> super-verbose s2p thing).  It's basically just the sed script with
>> semicolons added and the backslashes in the regular expressions moved
>> around.  I think we could use something like that for all platforms now.
> 
> Sounds like a good idea to me now that perl is a hard requirement.
> +1.

How about this patch as a comprehensive solution?

Commits

  1. Make win32tzlist.pl checkable again

  2. meson: Make gzip and tar optional

  3. meson: Make sed optional

  4. Remove MSVC scripts

  5. Replace Gen_dummy_probes.sed with Gen_dummy_probes.pl