From: Jeffrey W. Baker <jwbaker@acm.org>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI Installer for
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:00:49 -0800
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On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:53 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Oracle's graphical installer is a material impediment to Oracle
> > adoption. The installer only works on systems where particular versions
> > of Java and Motif libraries are available. On 64-bit Opteron systems it
> > only works with the peculiar 32-bit thunking tree favored by Red Hat and
> > hardly anybody else.
> >
> > If I could install Oracle on Debian/AMD64 with a shell script, I'd drop
> > Postgresql in a heartbeat.
> >
> > Obviously anybody is welcome and able to just write whatever software
> > they feel is needed, but go ahead and count me among the skeptics.
> >
> The installer is for the 98% not the 2%. You are in the 2%.
Right, and it would make FAR more sense if Oracle just shipped the whole
thing, operating system and the works, on a single installer image.
So why don't you just do that with Postgres? You could call it
"Bootable PostgreSQL". It would be a big hit. When a new version comes
out, you can just mail out a new DVD.
That would be a lot better than pretending to know how to fit in, best
practices and the works, with all the various Unix systems out there.
-jwb
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