Re: Native Win32 port - PLEASE!
От | Paul Thomas |
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Тема | Re: Native Win32 port - PLEASE! |
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Msg-id | 20040326214610.A32355@bacon обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Native Win32 port - PLEASE! (ajmayo@my-deja.com (Andrew Mayo)) |
Список | pgsql-general |
On 26/03/2004 10:28 Andrew Mayo wrote: > PLEASE .... can we have the native Win32 port SOON. > > It will totally and utterly hurt Microsoft in a very important area to > have this port. Why? > > Well, many of you will know that MS give away a cut-down version of > SQL Server (MSDE) and this is bundled with a *lot* of Win32 apps. > > Now, MSDE is pretty good, though it is a nightmare to upgrade, for > various reasons - but there are fishhooks in the license agreement > that worry a lot of people - particularly, a clause about replication > that could be interpreted in ways that would suddenly require users to > pay MS large wads of cash. > > And MSDE is deliberately crippled; five concurrent users, max 2G > database size. > > Many vendors (including the one I work for) would be very very very > interested in looking at PostgreSQL as an alternative BUT it NEEDS to > run natively on Windows (not via Cygwin) If you read the list archives for hackers and win32, I think you'll see that a non-Cygwin port is what is being undetaken right now. As with pretty-well all OSS the limiting factor is available resources. An enlightened company which would make money on the back of a win32 port would obviously offer to donate programmer (as in _experienced_ C/win32 rather than junior/novice) time to help the port along. > If it did, I can see real inroads being made into 'mindspace' here and > a huge increase in PostgreSQL usage - it would become ubiquitous as a > 21st century database - and porting to Win32 therefore helps, not > hinders, the open source movement. > > So can I quietly beg the Win32 group to expedite this port. I believe > you will be utterly astonished at the demand. Please..... I think everyone in the core and advocacy teams is well aware of this as are most of the other mailing-list regulars. -- Paul Thomas +------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+ | Thomas Micro Systems Limited | Software Solutions for Business | | Computer Consultants | http://www.thomas-micro-systems-ltd.co.uk | +------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
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