Re: So, can we stop supporting Windows native now?

Craig Ringer wrote:
> Yeah, you're right. He's not the only one either.
>
> I was reacting to the original post, and TBH didn't think it
> through. The commit logs suggest there's a decent amount of work
> that goes in, and I'm sure a lot of it isn't visible when just
> looking for 'windows', 'win32', 'msvc', etc.
>
> Even the build system affects people who don't use it, if
> they're adding features. I recently backported a bunch of 9.3
> functionality to 9.1, and in the process simply stripped out all
> the Windows build system changes as "meh, too hard, don't care".
>
> So yeah. I casually handwaved away a lot of work that's not
> highly visible, but still happens and is important, and was
> wrong to do so. I've done a bit on Windows myself but didn't
> fully recognise the burden support for it places on patches to
> core infrastructure and on committers.

Maybe someone in the community to appoint a chief for Windows?

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