Subject: Re: Add Postgres.app to the Downloads page?
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From: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com>
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Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 00:44:23 -0400
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>,
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To: Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>

On May 9, 2012, at 7:56 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:

> On 10 May 2012 00:02, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>> On 5/9/12 3:45 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:41:54PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>>> All,
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>>>> Before we get to beta, I'd love to add Postgres.app to the =
downloads
>>>> page.  Any objections?
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>>> What does that do?
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>> User-friendly mac-native installer.
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> I agree with the idea. it's mostly for web developers who sometimes
> need to quickly run Postgres to test their application. Users don't
> have to install a service.

One of the most frequent questions I get from OS X users is "I'm having =
trouble installing Postgres - how do I do it?" - apparently building =
from source on OS X is in vogue :-)

That said, I would agree with adding the OS X installer to the =
downloads.  There are some alternative ways of installing it on OS X as =
well, but we want to make it as simple as possible.

Jonathan=