From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199909210247.WAA27574@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990920215229.vev@michvhf.com> from Vince Vielhaber at
 "Sep
	20, 1999 09:52:29 pm"
To: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 22:47:38 -0400 (EDT)
CC: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, hackers@postgreSQL.org
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> 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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