X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C8199DC837 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:49:49 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 97394-04 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:49:49 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from service-web.de (p15093784.pureserver.info [217.160.106.224]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 784C59DC805 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:49:47 -0400 (AST) Received: from [10.100.1.50] (074-016-066-080.eggenet.de [80.66.16.74]) by service-web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7449A200037; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:49:48 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43DF1694.1080602@wildenhain.de> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:49:40 +0100 From: Tino Wildenhain User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Joshua D. Drake" Cc: Christopher Browne , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI Installer for References: <1138668525.643.59.camel@evim.gunduz.org> <43DEDEFB.8090409@commandprompt.com> In-Reply-To: <43DEDEFB.8090409@commandprompt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.096 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.096] X-Spam-Score: 0.096 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200601/974 X-Sequence-Number: 79078 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