Re: VMs for Reviewers Available

On 09/21/2013 10:48 PM, Jaime Casanova wrote:
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> El 21/09/2013 18:09, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net
> <mailto:andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>> escribió:
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> > On 09/21/2013 06:48 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
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> >> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
> <mailto:josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>> wrote:
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> >>> Windows VMs are also available, but I don't have the ability to
> >>> preconfigure them with tools.
> >>
> >> Wasn't there an EC2 image doing the rounds that Magnus created, that
> >> took care of all of that for you?
> >>
> >>
> http://blog.hagander.net/archives/151-Testing-PostgreSQL-patches-on-Windows-using-Amazon-EC2.html
> >>
> >> I'm not sure how current it is - was this before or after we started
> >> shipping our own WinFlex? Magnus?
> >>
> >
> >
> > There is really no longer any need to use our WinFlex. Just use the
> flex that comes with MSysGit - it works perfectly well, and you only
> need flex if you're building from git anyway.
> >
>
> If you're reviewing patches you're probably compiling from git.
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> those win machines come with msys (and flex)? not always our reviewers
> know how to install those tools
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>

It's do0cumented on the wiki - see
<http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Building_With_MinGW>

cheers

andrew