Re: Visual Studio 2012 RC

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Brar Piening <brar(at)gmx(dot)de> wrote:
>> The attached patch makes postgres build with Visual Studio 2012 RC.
>
> Looks good in principle - please add it to the next commitfest
> (https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view?id=14).
> We're definitely not adding a new build target post-beta for 9.2 :-)
>
>
>> As MS finally decided on the name I don't expect any need for changes for
>> the final RTM.
>>
>> I didn't bother to update the docs for now as I still have some hope that
>> the developer community succeds in pushig M$ to reverse this decision:
>> http://people.planetpostgresql.org/andrew/index.php?/archives/276-Microsoft-throws-large-developer-communities-under-the-bus.html
>
> We'll need docs by the time it should get committed of course - might
> as well write up something based on what we know now, and then update
> it if they change their behaviour.
>
> I don't have too much hope for them actually changing it - they seem
> hell-bent on forcing everybody into metro, and this seems to be yet
> another way to do that. But we can always hope...

Regardless, we should still add support for 2012 - we'll just need to
note that Express cannot be used. FYI, we have to use Pro or higher to
produce the installers as it is, otherwise we cannot distribute the
runtimes.

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