Re: Path to PostgreSQL portabiliy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: markw@snoopy.mohawksoft.com [mailto:markw@snoopy.mohawksoft.com]On
> Behalf Of mlw
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 11:47 AM
> To: Joel Burton
> Cc: Tom Lane; PostgreSQL-development; Jan Wieck; Marc G. Fournier; Dann
> Corbit
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Path to PostgreSQL portabiliy
>
>
> As I think of it, I don't think a cygwin PostgreSQL will *ever* be taken
> seriously by the Windows crowd, just as a Wine/CorelDraw wasn't
> taken seriously
> by the Linux crowd.
>
> If we want to support Windows, we should support Windows. Cygwin
> will not be
> accepted by any serious IT team.

Well, I think it's a bit different than Wine, a _huge_ binary trying to
emulate every call of an operating system (and making things more than a bit
slower).

If there is a stripped down, out-of-the-box install that includes cygwin, do
you think that will turn people off? It would be essentially invisible.

There was a native PG (7.0.3, IIRC) floating around on the web, so _someone_
has done this before.

- J.

Joel BURTON | joel@joelburton.com | joelburton.com | aim: wjoelburton
Knowledge Management & Technology Consultant