> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Tom Lane
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 1:49 PM
> To: mlw
> Cc: Marc G. Fournier; PostgreSQL-development
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] How much work is a native Windows application?
>
>
> It'd be worth trying to understand cygwin issues in detail before we
> sign up to do and support a native Windows port. I understand the
> user-friendliness objection to cygwin (though one would think proper
> packaging might largely hide cygwin from naive Windows users). What
> I don't understand is whether there are any serious performance lossages
> from it, and if so whether we could work around them.
I've sent others to do a cygwin install of PG; it's not at all obvious to
them how much of cygwin they need & they end up installing ALL of cygwin (a
ton of devel tools, obscure unix utils, etc.) just to get PG working.
It would seem not too difficult to package up the cygwin.dll, the handful of
shell utils (sh, rm, etc.) req'd by PG, and perhaps even give it a standard
Windows installer.
Would this be a worthwhile move?
Joel BURTON | joel@joelburton.com | joelburton.com | aim: wjoelburton
Knowledge Management & Technology Consultant