In the Administrator's Guide, first section under Installation, it still
says

* To build on Windows NT or Windows 2000 you need the Cygwin and cygipc
packages. See the file doc/FAQ_MSWIN for details.

I suppose this is at least partly out of date, but what should it say
now?

Also, do we even still need the "Installation on Windows" section? Is
anyone still going to care about building the frontend tools that way?

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From:	Bruce Momjian
Subject:	Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Update "Requirements" for Windows?
Date:	Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:12:37 -0500 (EST)

Tom Lane wrote:
> In the Administrator's Guide, first section under Installation, it still
> says
>
> * To build on Windows NT or Windows 2000 you need the Cygwin and cygipc
> packages. See the file doc/FAQ_MSWIN for details.
>
> I suppose this is at least partly out of date, but what should it say
> now?
>
> Also, do we even still need the "Installation on Windows" section? Is
> anyone still going to care about building the frontend tools that way?

Oh, I see this needs some major restructuring/relabeling. I am working
on that now.

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From:	Tom Lane
Subject:	Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Update "Requirements" for Windows?
Date:	Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:28:46 -0500

Bruce Momjian writes:
> Oh, I see this needs some major restructuring/relabeling. I am working
> on that now.

I'm already in process of copy-editing that file; please don't change it
under me.

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From:	Bruce Momjian
Subject:	Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Update "Requirements" for Windows?
Date:	Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:33:09 -0500 (EST)

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> > Oh, I see this needs some major restructuring/relabeling. I am working
> > on that now.
>
> I'm already in process of copy-editing that file; please don't change it
> under me.

Oops. I just committed. I will back it out. Let me know when you are
done.

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From:	Tom Lane
Subject:	Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Update "Requirements" for Windows?
Date:	Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:36:30 -0500

Bruce Momjian writes:
> Oops. I just committed. I will back it out. Let me know when you are
> done.

Never mind then, I'll merge ...

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From:	Tom Lane
Subject:	Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Update "Requirements" for Windows?
Date:	Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:34:06 -0500

I said:
> I'm already in process of copy-editing that file; please don't change it
> under me.

Actually, as long as you're only touching installw.sgml and not
install.sgml, there's no problem. May I suggest that the material
in FAQ_MINGW and FAQ_CYGWIN might be transposed into that chapter?

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From:	Bruce Momjian
Subject:	Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Update "Requirements" for Windows?
Date:	Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:40:50 -0500 (EST)

Tom Lane wrote:
> I said:
> > I'm already in process of copy-editing that file; please don't change it
> > under me.
>
> Actually, as long as you're only touching installw.sgml and not
> install.sgml, there's no problem. May I suggest that the material
> in FAQ_MINGW and FAQ_CYGWIN might be transposed into that chapter?
>

I was touching both so I will wait. We could move the FAQ info into the
docs but in a way the FAQ_MINGW doc file is referenced by both
pginstaller and by the docs, so merging it in might not make sense, and
it does have totally platform-specific stuff that might appear too large
in the official docs.

Right now in my current patch the idea is that in installation.sgml we
point them to FAQ_MINGW or FAQ_CYGWIN and from there they would get the
tools they need and return to the official install docs to complete the
job.

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From:	Tom Lane
Subject:	Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Update "Requirements" for Windows?
Date:	Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:13:14 -0500

OK, I'm out of installation.sgml if you want to have another hack at it.

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From:	Bruce Momjian
Subject:	Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Update "Requirements" for Windows?
Date:	Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:20:37 -0500 (EST)

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Tom Lane wrote:
> OK, I'm out of installation.sgml if you want to have another hack at it.

OK, diff attached and applied.

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retrieving revision 1.20
diff -c -c -r1.20 install-win32.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/install-win32.sgml 24 Dec 2004 18:37:26 -0000 1.20
--- doc/src/sgml/install-win32.sgml 24 Dec 2004 19:18:42 -0000
***************
*** 3,9 ****
-->

! Installation on <productname>Windows</productname>

installation
--- 3,9 ----
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! Client-Only Installation on <productname>Windows</productname>

installation
***************
*** 12,19 ****

Although PostgreSQL is written for
! Unix-like operating systems and compiles under
! MinGW, the C client library
(libpq) and the interactive terminal
(psql) can be compiled using other Windows
tool sets. Makefiles are included in the source distribution for
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Although PostgreSQL is written for
! Unix-like operating systems and can be built using
! MinGW and
! Cygwin, the C client library
(libpq) and the interactive terminal
(psql) can be compiled using other Windows
tool sets. Makefiles are included in the source distribution for
Index: doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.219
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*** doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml 24 Dec 2004 19:12:36 -0000 1.219
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***************
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on Windows

! To build on Windows NT or Windows
! 2000 you need the Cygwin and
! cygipc packages. See the file
! doc/FAQ_MSWIN for details.

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! To build on NT-based versions of
! Windows like Windows XP and 2003 see
! doc/FAQ_MINGW. For earlier Windows
! releases see doc/FAQ_CYGWIN.
!
! To build Windows client-only interfaces using
! tools like Visual C++ and Borland
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