Re: Three weeks left until feature freeze

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>
>> No matter what we want people to do, if someone wants PostgreSQL, they
>> go to PostgreSQL's site, download PostgreSQL, and install PostgreSQL.
>> The fact is, most people generally don't read the, "don't see it in
>> the distribution, check out pgfoundry"-like text. Sure, people should
>> read the docs, but most don't until they have to (which is long after
>> getting the software). Do we even have anything in the actual manual
>> that talks about gborg or pgfoundry?
>
> Ahh no.
>
> Most people who want PostgreSQL use the version supplied by their vendor,
> unless it is Win32 in which case they download the installer from PgFoundry.

Agreed ... I never download from ftp unless I need an older version then
is provided in FreeBSD ports ... and I have a few clients that won't even
*touch* the source code, but will only install the version that their
OS vendor provides, for support reasons ...

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