Re: [HACKERS] What's left?

[Thomas Swan <tswan(at)idigx(dot)com>]

Dann Corbit wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Claudio Natoli [mailto:claudio(dot)natoli(at)memetrics(dot)com] 
> > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 4:44 PM
> > To: 'Andrew Dunstan '; 'pgsql-hackers-win32 '; 
> > 'PostgreSQL-development '
> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] What's left?
> >
> >
> >
> > Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Claudio Natoli wrote:
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > * installation directory issues (/usr/local/pgsql/bin 
> > > >        
> > won't work too 
> >    
> >
> > > > well outside of the MingW environment :-)
> > > >        
> > > Clearly we will need an installer for a binary distribution.
> > >      
> > Yes. To be more precise, my point was that doing so will 
> > require some changes to the code (ie. configure/compile time 
> > constants like PKGLIBDIR just won't do us any good).
> >
> >
> >    
> >
> > > But for now I suggest that the default prefix on Windows is
> > > C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL
> > >      
>
> More properly:
> %ProgramFiles%\PostgreSQL
>
> And then, if they don't like that, let them put it wherever they darn
> well please.
>
>  
>
> > For right now, I'd suggest a directory that doesn't have 
> > whitespace and localization issues :-P
> >    
>
> It will have to be faced.  If it cannot handle spaces or funny
> characters, it will simply fail.
>  
What about 8.3 short names for the win32 environment? 
"C:\Progra~1\Postgres" Should be able to work correctly.  Isn't there a 
win32 command to get the short path if you need it?

> I may be able to help on the localization and path stuff.  We have
> solved those issues for our port of 7.1.3, and I expect the work for 7.5
> to be extremely similar.
>
> Where can I get the latest tarball for Win32 development?
>
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