On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
>> On 5/2/10, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I'm not so sure it's fair to the users though.
>
> Well, we did promise that Windows 8.2 would have the same lifespan as
> 8.2 on other platforms:
> http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.865
Right.
> The planned EOL is only a year and a half away anyway. OTOH, if it's
> doubling your effort to build Windows binary distributions, maybe
> it's not worth continuing to support it.
Probably 66% of the effort in a back branch release is the 8.2
installer for me. The 8.3 MSI installer build automates (or
eliminates) much of the harder manual work, and the one-clicks are
100% automated - the effort there has been put in over the longer term
to develop them in a maintainable way.
But... unless there are other good reasons (like we actually can't fix
things without serious effort, rather than we just can't be bothered),
I don't want my time to be the cause of us dropping it early.
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