From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 22:47:38 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <199909210247.WAA27574@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990920215229.vev@michvhf.com>
> You're missing one minor point. It's highly probable you never experienced
> it. The first few days (maybe even couple of weeks) PostgreSQL can be
> intimidating. Most packages install the same way:
>
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> and you can do it from whatever directory you want. Right from the
> beginning, the postgres installation has you working from a directory
> that you may not normally keep your sources in (I keep mine in /usr/local/src
> as do many others), working as a user you just created so you're in an
> unfamiliar environment. Then the redirection of the make process (or the
> gmake process) monitoring it with tail.... For the first time installer
> it can be intimidating. Hell, Innd 1.4 was easier to install the first
> time. After doing it more than once (and using Tom's tip with makefile.custom)
> all of that can be gotten around. Then the regression tests. Lets face
> it, it's a big package - well worth the effort to learn it, but it's still
> big. So after putting the poor newbie thru all of this trauma you want to
> further traumatize him/her with man pages? :)
>
I agree our INSTALL is very large. Is there some way we can simplify
the install process?
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