Re: Native Windows, Apache Portable Runtime

Justin Clift wrote:
>
> mlw wrote:
> >
> > Upon doing some inspection of apache 2.x, it seems that me making a SysV
> > Windows .DLL for PostgreSQL, while a cool project, would be unnecessary.
> >
> > The APR (Apache Portable Runtime) seems to have all the necessary support. The
> > problem is that it has its own API.
> >
> > We should find a way to extract the APR out of apache and make it a library
> > within PostgreSQL. A quick look at the license seems to indicate this is OK.
> > Should we notify the Apache guys just to be polite?
>
> Definitely. They make also be able to offer some tips and guidance
> (i.e. there may already be a way of splitting it off easy, etc), but
> we'll never know if we don't say hello. (Hey, that rhymes!)

It is so easy to extract he APR it is silly. They even describe how in the
README.dev. Except for NIH, I can't see any reason not to use t.