Craig Ringer <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thursday 16 of June 2011 06:14:13 > On 16/06/11 04:49, Josh Berkus wrote: > > We especially need folks who are able to build PostgreSQL on Windows, as > > we have several Windows-specific patches and no reviewers for them. > > Urrrrrrrggh. Does that mean I have to volunteer myself? ;-) > > I kind of regret learning to develop on Windows, because I find it a > horrid environment*, but so does everybody else, most of whom have been > clever enough not to learn it. They can say "I don't know Windows" and > they're safe. > > Any chance of flagging patches on the commitfest when they're platform > specific? I'm hurting for time but will check out Windows-specific stuff > if it's an area the project particularly needs help with. > > * Except for Visual C++'s debugger, which is a godsend, and so good it's > almost worth learning to code on Windows to use. I will never use gdb > for c++ again given the choice. gdb is a C debugger with bizarre > delusions that it's also a C++ debugger. Most of my C++ code is > cross-platform primarily so I can code on Linux, interactively debug on > Windows, and use Linux for valgrind memory debugging. > > -- > Craig Ringer I may try to review this patches about XML & XPATH (as I know(n) something about XML): https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=565 https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=579 Regards, Radek -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general