From: Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de>
To: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI Installer for
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:49:40 +0100
Message-ID: <43DF1694.1080602@wildenhain.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43DEDEFB.8090409@commandprompt.com>
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Joshua D. Drake schrieb:
...
> As more and more people come on board people are going to want to
> download a .exe (a metaphor),
> double click and have it open an installer, they will then want to click
> next, next, continue, finish.
>
> You don't get that with apt-get install.
Well you can use a frontend and search and click as well. I see no
problem - and it really works, as opposed to:
> There is a reason that even Oracle has a graphical installer on Linux,
> because most people installing
> the software:
>
> A. Don't know how to use it
> B. Probably don't know how to use Linux
> C. Don't want to.
Hehehe. Did you actually use this installer? I did! And lets tell you,
you dont come by w/o any linux/unix knowledge.
Regards
Tino
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