Re: [HACKERS] Win32 release warning
"Marc G. Fournier" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32,gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: >>> >>> Also, we probably have more beta testers on Win32 than on all Unix >>> platforms combined, though they might not be testing as thoroughly as >>> Unix. >> >> >> Maybe I am just being dense, but isn't this obvious? I mean this is the >> first release of the Win32 code. Anybody who would be willing to put it >> in production without extensive testing deserves everything they get. >> >> Then again we are talking about people who willinging use Windows as the >> primary platform. Forget I brought it up. > > I think there is concern that if the Win32 port is buggy that it will > give the project a bad reputation. It will probably be distributed to > many who have never used PostgreSQL before. Since I imagine 99.9% of Windows users are going to use pginstaller to install it ... has anyone looked into putting a WARNING pop up window as part of the install itself? Or does such already exist? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [email protected] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings