Re: Open 7.3 items

I have discussed the idea of contributing our Win32 work to the
PostgreSQL project with management.

We have also converted all of the utilities (initdb, psql, pg_dump,
pg_restore, pg_id, pg_passwd, etc.)

Management is (rightfully) concerned about recouping the many thousands
of dollars invested in the Win32 conversion.

I pointed out that future versions would contain our enhancements and
therefore benefit us directly.

I pointed out that maintenance is 80% of the cost of a software system
and a world-wide team of good programmers would be maintaining the code
for all to benefit.

And last but not least, good computer Kharma.
;-)

They will have to cogitate over it a bit, I think.  If they agree, I
will make a file with our source tree available on an ftp site.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 1:48 PM
> To: Dann Corbit
> Cc: Tom Lane; PostgreSQL-development
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Open 7.3 items
>
>
>
> If you can contribute it, I think it would be valuable to the
> two other
> Win32 projects that are working on porting the 7.3 code to Win32.
>
> I don't think they will have any code ready for 7.3 but they
> may have a
> few pieces they want to get in to make their 7.3 patching job easier,
> like renaming macros or variables or something.
>
>
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> Dann Corbit wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 9:50 PM
> > > To: Bruce Momjian
> > > Cc: PostgreSQL-development
> > > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Open 7.3 items
> > [snip]
> >
> > > > Win32 - timefame?
> >
> > I may be able to contribute the Win32 stuff we have done here.  (Not
> > sure of it, but they do seem more open to the idea now).
> It's only for
> > 7.1.3, and so I am not sure how helpful it would be.  There
> is also a
> > bunch of stuff that looks like this in the code:
> >
> > #ifdef ICKY_WIN32_KLUDGE
> > /* Bletcherous hack to make it work in Win32 goes here... */
> > #else
> > /* Normal code goes here... */
> > #endif
> >
> > Let me know if you are interested.
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