Re: Visual Studio 2012 RC

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> 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.

Oh, absolutely, I agree with that. It goes to the docs.

We might also want to think twice about producing the installers with
2012, and just stick to 2010 pro for that. Because once we go 2012 on
that, it's no longer going ot be possible to build addons without
either having the pro version or running into the risk of conflicting
runtime versions...

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