Message-ID: <51059B56.2030504@dunslane.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:25:42 -0500
From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64;
	rv:15.0) Gecko/20120827 Thunderbird/15.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: james@mansionfamily.plus.com
CC: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndQuadrant.com>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>,
	Brar Piening <brar@gmx.de>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>,
	Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Visual Studio 2012 RC
References: <50FD0B35.3020503@2ndQuadrant.com> <50FD3840.8010700@dunslane.net>
	<50FD3D5B.9040506@2ndQuadrant.com>
	<50FF7FD0.7050705@2ndQuadrant.com>
	<50FF897B.2050603@2ndQuadrant.com>
	<20130124013825.GA29954@tornado.leadboat.com>
	<5100AA63.2050604@2ndQuadrant.com> <5100C2FD.70800@2ndQuadrant.com>
	<20130125030904.GA7574@tornado.leadboat.com>
	<5101FA18.2080505@2ndQuadrant.com>
	<20130125122535.GA10464@tornado.leadboat.com>
	<51036BCA.4090905@2ndQuadrant.com> <5103884E.1090505@dunslane.net>
	<510470A1.5080907@2ndQuadrant.com>
	<51048271.5030701@2ndQuadrant.com>
	<51058472.4080501@mansionfamily.plus.com>
In-Reply-To: <51058472.4080501@mansionfamily.plus.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Precedence: bulk
Sender: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org


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


-- 
Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers