On 07/09/2013 11:03 AM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>> I don't think rewriting it in Perl is necessary or even desirable. I
>> don't see anything particularly unportable in that script as it is.
>
> I was under the impression that the final patch ought to work on
> Windows too. However, I suppose that since the number of people that
> use windows as an everyday development machine is probably zero, we
> could reasonably forgo doing anything on that platform.
I'd say that the number who use Windows *and the unix-like build chain*
day to day is going to be zero.
If you're using the Visual Studio based toolchain with vcbuild.pl,
vcregress.pl, etc you're not going to notice or care about this change.
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