Re: 8.0.2 Beta 1 for Windows available

[Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>]

Greg Landrum wrote:
> On Apr 8, 2005 12:45 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: pgsql-hackers-win32-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > > [mailto:pgsql-hackers-win32-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf
> > > Of Greg Landrum
> > > Sent: 08 April 2005 01:35
> > > To: Dave Page
> > > Cc: pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > > Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] 8.0.2 Beta 1 for Windows available
> > >
> > > On Apr 6, 2005 3:29 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > > A pgInstaller build of PostgreSQL 8.0.2 beta 1 for Windows
> > >
> > > is available
> > >
> > > > for testing at
> > >
> > > http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.0.2beta1/win32/
> > >
> > > Does the new installer beta include the extra headers required to do
> > > backend development on win32 systems or will a source distribution
> > > still be required there?
> >
> > Source will be required as this work has not been done yet.

I wonder if it is really sensible to include all backend includes. 
People might think they can easily develop backend modules with any 
compiler, which I doubt will be supported thoroughly. Second, somebody 
who has mingw installed won't have a problem to unzip those backend 
sources too; compiling the backend is a good test if everything's 
working as expected.
So I'd suggest to leave backend includes out of the std distribution, or 
at least make a distinctively selectable (non-default) package from it.

Regards,
Andreas