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From: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
To: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Aleksander Alekseev <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Cygwin support
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:27:23 -0400
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On 2025-04-22 Tu 12:55 PM, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-04-22 at 10:26 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I vaguely recall some discussion about whether building with readline
>> has become possible under MSVC.  I think it'd make a lot of people
>> happy if that could happen (but I hasten to add that I'm not
>> volunteering).
> https://postgr.es/m/CACLU5mThm-uCtERMVHMoGED2EPfyS54j83WB20s_BmzVQuMkpg%40mail.gmail.com
>
> Seems like Kirk didn't pursue this further.
>

It's worth looking at, but I don't think it's possible for release 18 
let alone the older releases. We should look at retiring Cygwin when all 
the live branches have psql with a working readline on native Windows 
builds.

cheers

andrew

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Andrew Dunstan
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