| From: | Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Umair Shahid <umair(dot)shahid(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Adding PGInstaller to the Downloads section |
| Date: | 2018-08-28 19:15:25 |
| Message-ID: | 1ef13e7cc4725f0d6b26fe58e1d2488d@postgresql.org |
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On 2018-08-28 20:06, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 08:01:12PM +0100, Justin Clift wrote:
>> On 2018-08-28 18:32, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> >Well, if we have another installer provider who has similar or better
>> >performance for things we care about, e.g. reliable updates, support,
>> >_and_ is willing to host the binaries where we want them, we can switch
>> >to them. While it is kind of disloyal to change preferred providers, we
>> >also didn't agree to have them be preferred forever, especially if
>> >someone better shows up. Of course, switching might be disruptive for
>> >our installers uses, so we have to consider that too.
>>
>> An alternative approach would be for us ("the project") to build
>> official
>> installers ourselves, with those being the recommended ones.
>
> Uh, we used to do that but found the user support overhead too much.
No worries, was just a thought. :)
+ Justin
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