On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> How is being able to build extensions on windows reasonably not an
> improvement? It's really hard to build pgxs like stuff on windows right
> now. Also not having to maintain a fair amount of visual studio project
> generation code? And getting faster builds that don't suffer from weird
> parallelism issues because dependencies can't be expressed properly in
> parallel make? ...
Sure, those are notable advantages. Thanks for articulating them so clearly.
> It seems fair to argue that it's not worth the pain to get there, but
> how it'd not be an improvement to be there I really don't get.
Well that's probably because you understand cmake. I don't.
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