Re: Updated: postgresql-7.2-2

[Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>]

Jonathan,

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:46:40PM -0500, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> >  Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:10:00 -0500
> >  From: Jason Tishler <jason@tishler.net>
> >  
> >  <!!!!! WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING !!!!!!>
> >  
> >  Note that this distribution will *not* function correctly with Cygwin
> >  1.3.9-1.  If you want to use this distribution, then you *must* upgrade
> >  your Cygwin DLL to a recent snapshot (i.e., 2002-Feb-10 or later) or to
> >  the next release after 1.3.9-1 (when available).
> >  
> >  </!!!!! WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING !!!!!!>
> 
> This seems like a singularly bad idea.  This means that if someone
> downloads setup.exe from the Cygwin site and installs a bunch of
> packages from scratch including postgresql, it won't work.  Blech.

Maybe I should just mark postgresql-7.2-2 as "test" and be done with it?

> Couldn't the postgresql update have waited until after a new version
> of the DLL was released?

Yes, I could have waited.  And yes, I did think about this issue.
Unfortunately, I was trying to make everyone happy and I appear to have
made no one happy (especially myself).

This is how I see it:  For those not using PostgreSQL, this is
a non-issue.  For those who are, they probably want the latest and
greatest so they will be willing to upgrade their DLL to a snapshot.
If not, then they can just stick with (or downgrade to) 7.1.3-2.

Jason