From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200412241812.iBOICbu04587@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Update "Requirements" for Windows?
In-Reply-To: <9573.1103910182@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:12:37 -0500 (EST)
Cc: pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> In the Administrator's Guide, first section under Installation, it still
> says
> 
> * To build on Windows NT or Windows 2000 you need the Cygwin and cygipc
>   packages. See the file doc/FAQ_MSWIN for details.
> 
> I suppose this is at least partly out of date, but what should it say
> now?
> 
> Also, do we even still need the "Installation on Windows" section?  Is
> anyone still going to care about building the frontend tools that way?

Oh, I see this needs some major restructuring/relabeling.  I am working
on that now.

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