On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 05:43:05PM +0300, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > Note that in spite of the last sentence, there is active work being
> > done on a native Windows port, AFAIK.
>
> Who's doig that? Developers or other people?
I believe one of the core developers is working on it, among other
people. Check out the archives for -hackers for all the discussion.
> I do never want to see a Windos port of PostgreSQL!
a. Why? What difference could it make to you? No-one is
compelling you to use it.
b. Welcome to the free software world -- people will work on
whatever they like. (That isn't to say that a nasty bunch of
compromises should be made in PostgreSQL just to support Windows; but
I have every confidence in the sound programming sensibilities of the
core developers -- and they'd be the ones making such a decision.)
A
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