On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dave Page <dpage@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> On 5/2/10, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'm not so sure it's fair to the users though. > > Well, we did promise that Windows 8.2 would have the same lifespan as > 8.2 on other platforms: > http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.865 Right. > The planned EOL is only a year and a half away anyway. OTOH, if it's > doubling your effort to build Windows binary distributions, maybe > it's not worth continuing to support it. Probably 66% of the effort in a back branch release is the 8.2 installer for me. The 8.3 MSI installer build automates (or eliminates) much of the harder manual work, and the one-clicks are 100% automated - the effort there has been put in over the longer term to develop them in a maintainable way. But... unless there are other good reasons (like we actually can't fix things without serious effort, rather than we just can't be bothered), I don't want my time to be the cause of us dropping it early. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
