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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: james@mansionfamily.plus.com
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: Brar Piening <brar@gmx.de>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Visual Studio 2012 RC
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:25:42 -0500
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On 01/27/2013 02:48 PM, james wrote:
>> Anyway, this is getting way off track. The point is that the MS SDKs and
>> compilers are a bit of a mess and that MinGW support is useful because
>> we can't rely on them continuing to offer free SDKs and compilers in 
>> future.
>
> Well, more compilers are always useful, but complaining that Microsoft 
> might withdraw their working compilers smacks of 'what if?' paranoia. 
> What if mingw support for Win64 was (sometimes/often/always/still) a 
> bit rubbish?  Oh wait ...
>

On the contrary, only a few months ago there was a far from groundless 
fear that Microsoft would do just that. Following considerable outcry 
they changed their mind. But this is definitely not just paranoia. As 
for w64 support, the mingw-64 project exists more or less explicitly to 
produce 64 bit compilers, including those hosted on mingw/msys.

cheers

andrew



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