Re: Movement of FAQ's

I have updated the MinGW FAQ with a new heading and pointing to the
pginstaller FAQ:

Compiling PostgreSQL On Native Win32 FAQ

Last updated: Thu Oct 14 18:22:57 EDT 2004

Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us)

The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/project/win32.html.

The FAQ for running PostgreSQL on native Win32 is at
http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/FAQ_windows.html.

The native Win32 port is built from source using MinGW tools. There
is also a precompiled binary installer called
pginstaller which you can download from
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller. It is a fully native build and
uses no additional software like MinGW.

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Dave Page wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us]
> > Sent: 11 October 2004 16:03
> > To: Dave Page
> > Cc: PostgreSQL www
> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Movement of FAQ's
> >
> > Dave Page wrote:
> > > > Oh, no I didn't. Would you like to make adjustments to it and/or
> > > > FAQ_MINGW so they point to each other and don't duplicate
> > > > information?
> > >
> > > I'm not entirely convinced that's the right answer. The
> > main concern
> > > is making things easy for the users - that's what I've tried to do
> > > with the installer faq (which I now notice Magnus has been
> > editting!)
> > > by covering both installer specific stuff, and
> > non-installer specific;
> > > a kindof 1 stop shop for all Win32 faqs. I appreciate that we don't
> > > necessarily want the installer stuff in the main tree however. What
> > > about making the version in the tree a subset of our one, simply
> > > covering the mingw/compiliation issues which I can include in one
> > > standalone section in our faq?
> >
> > Both FAQ's are going to change over time, I am sure. I see
> > no problem in giving them a web link to the FAQ_MINGW for
> > compilation issues.
> > Having the Mingw outside our CVS doesn't make sense to me.
>
> No, and I don't think it should be outside. What I would like to avoid
> if possible though, is having win32 problems split across different
> FAQs. Most end users won't care about whether something is a Mingw or
> Installer issue and will just get frustrated if they cannot find the
> info they need.
>
> I guess the best answer might be to clearly mark the Mingw FAQ as a
> diy-compilation FAQ, and include a link for 'normal' end users to the
> installer FAQ in which we try to include all relevant q&a's.
>
> Regards, Dave.
>

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