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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Barwick <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: PostgreSQL www <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] FAQ and Windows
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:53:56 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Updated with link to Cygwin FAQ. (the website will update soon with the
> automatic CVS pull) Not sure if you wanted anything else there as well?
> (the mentions that it's native only etc was done long ago by Dave)
>
> I see no mention at all of Cygwin in the MingW FAQ as it is now?
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ_MINGW.html). Though that file
> is dated Oct 14, perhaps it just hasn't pulled in your changes? (I think
> it'd be good to have "all the FAQs link to each other" when possible, to
> direct users that got started at the wrong end)
>
> Finally, I don't see the pginstaller FAQ linked from the FAQ list per
> Ians suggestion - I think that'd be a good idea.
OK, we will need one of the www guys to add your FAQ to the list. WWW guys?
As far as changes, I was thinking you should remove information about
building and point to the FAQ_MINGW, but I see you already did that, so
we are looking good.
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> //Magnus
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 6:20 AM
> > To: Ian Barwick
> > Cc: [email protected]; Magnus Hagander
> > Subject: Re: [DOCS] FAQ and Windows
> >
> >
> > OK, I updated the FAQ by adding this sentence:
> >
> > MSDOS-based versions of Windows (Win95, Win98, WinMe) can run
> > PostgreSQL using Cygwin.
> >
> > I also updated the version number.
> >
> > Magnus is going to update the pginstaller FAQ to talk about
> > using Win32 and I am going to have the CVS Win32 FAQ talk
> > about building on Win32, and each FAQ is going to point to
> > the other. Magnus, FAQ_MINGW already points to the
> > pginstaller FAQ. Can we complete the adjustement of these FAQ's?
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > -------------
> >
> > Ian Barwick wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I was trying to clarify the installation options for Windows and
> > > noticed all mention of the Cygwin package has been dropped
> > from the FAQ.
> > > Attached is a patch mentioning this is the only option for
> > DOS-based
> > > Windows (95 ~ ME) - someone is bound to ask - and with links to the
> > > relevant FAQs. I also bumped the current version number.
> > >
> > > On a related note I'd suggest adding the "Native Win32 FAQ"
> > > (
> > http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/FAQ_windows.html ) to the
> > > list at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/#faqs .
> > >
> > > Ian Barwick
> > > [email protected]
>
>
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