From: debursky AT deb DOT lumax DOT com DOT tw (Debursky, Po-Sheng Ko)
Subject: Re: Cygnus/EGCS Windows NT port of PostgreSQL
20 Oct 1998 10:52:39 -0700
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To: Stipe Tolj <tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de>
Cc: Joost Kraaijeveld <JKraaijeveld AT askesis DOT nl>,
        "Gnu-Win32 (E-mail)" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "Egcs (E-mail)" <egcs AT cygnus DOT com>

Do Porting MySql to Cygnus a illegal action ?
TCl should not allow this, I think !.

On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Stipe Tolj wrote:

> > We  have succeeded in porting PostgreSQL to Windows NT.
> >
> > PostgreSQL is a sophisticated Object-Relational DBMS, supporting almost all
> > SQL constructs, including subselects, transactions, and user-defined types
> > and functions. It is the most advanced open-source database available
> > anywhere.
> >
> > Allthought it runs on Windows NT (and allmost most unix flavours) additional
> > Windows work has to be done. The three most important things (not in any
> > particular order) are:
> >
> > 1. Changen open() andd fopen() calls so that there is no need to mount the
> > directories binary.
> > 2. Creating (a) dll(s) so we don't have to link staticaly.
> > 3. Solving some regression test problems (numeric and date-time stuff).
> >
> > If anyone feels the need to help, please do. Information on the project is
> > at:
> 
> As I said already, I am very interested since I was (or still am) trying to port
> mysql-3.22 to the cygwin32 environment. I will have a look on the issues in
> order to support Win32 systems.
> 
> Regards,
> Stipe
> 
> --
> Stipe Tolj <tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de>
> Cygwin32 Porting Project
> Department of Economical Computer Science
> University of Cologne, Germany
> http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~tolj
> 
> 
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