Re: writing backend extensions using Visual Studio

["Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>]

> > Maybe a good solution to this is to add an extra option in the 
> > installer's development category to include header files 
> for backend 
> > development?  That way most people (even those who do front-end
> > development) don't have to deal with having that whole include tree 
> > installed, but those who want to do backend work can still get 
> > everything required without doing their own build/source 
> installation.
> 
> Yeah, that's quite straightforward to do - although, there 
> are that many files that it would probably be easier to do a 
> wildcard include anyway unless it's a fairly well defined set 
> that's required. In reality I doubt most people would care 
> whats in the include/ directory anyway - it's the download 
> size I'm more worried about!

The full postgresql headers (from src/include) compresses to around
500Kb, so it's not that big a deal. But I don't think we need *all*
those, so it would definitly be better to have a subset if possible.

I still think a separate feature for iti s definitly the way to go.

//Magnus