From: Kevin Lo <kevlo@hello.com.tw>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: David Warnock <david@sundayta.co.uk>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Announce: PostgreSQL-6.5.3 binaries available forWindowsNT
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 14:10:18 +0800
Message-ID: <3872E04A.B946F847@hello.com.tw> (raw)
References: <200001041937.OAA20457@candle.pha.pa.us>
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Kevin,
> >
> > We are interested in funding work to get postgresql working on Windows
> > 9x.
> >
> > I know that cgywin is available for Win9x but that parts of the api are
> > not available.
> >
> > Do you believe it will be possible to build and run postgresql on Win9x?
> > How much work would be involved?
>
> I wonder if it would be easier to pay Cygnus to port the missing pieces.
> Can you give us a detailed list of the missing features the PostgreSQL
> needs the Cgywin doesn't have on Win9x?
I'm gonna implement Tcl/Tk API with PostgreSQL, let users can write
GUI apps. But it seems to take a lot of time...
Some people told me they can use NT binaries on Win98.
Well, I don't test it yet.
> --
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- Kevin
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