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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 12:29:38 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
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On Thu, May  9, 2024 at 12:10:11PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> On 2024-05-09 Th 00:03, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
>     I have committed the first draft of the PG 17 release notes;  you can
>     see the results here:
> 
>             https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-17.html
> 
>     It will be improved until the final release.  The item count is 188,
>     which is similar to recent releases:
> 
>             release-10:  189
>             release-11:  170
>             release-12:  180
>             release-13:  178
>             release-14:  220
>             release-15:  184
>             release-16:  206
>             release-17:  188
> 
>     I welcome feedback.  For some reason it was an easier job than usual.
> 
> 
>   • Remove the ability to build Postgres with Visual Studio (Michael Paquier)
> 
>     Meson is now the only available Windows build method.
> 
> 
> This is a category mistake. What was removed was the special code we had for
> building with VS, but not the ability to build with VS. You can build with VS
> using meson (see for example drongo on the buildfarm)

Wow, okay, I am not surprised I was confused.  New text is:

	<!--
	Author: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
	2023-12-20 [1301c80b2] Remove MSVC scripts
	-->
	
	<listitem>
	<para>
	Remove the Microsoft Visual Studio Studio-specific Postgres build option (Michael Paquier)
	</para>
	
	<para>
	Meson is now the only method for Visual Studio builds.
	</para>
	</listitem>
	<!--
	Author: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
	2023-12-20 [1301c80b2] Remove MSVC scripts
	-->
	
	<listitem>
	<para>
	Remove the Microsoft Visual Studio Studio-specific Postgres build option (Michael Paquier)
	</para>
	
	<para>
	Meson is now the only method for Visual Studio builds.
	</para>
	</listitem>

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  Bruce Momjian  <[email protected]>        https://momjian.us
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