Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Binaries vs Source

From: Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Guido Barosio" <gbarosio(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "PostgreSQL Advocacy" <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, w^3 <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Binaries vs Source
Date: 2008-09-09 17:56:00
Message-ID: 20080909105600.22b93659@jd-laptop
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On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:42:51 -0700
"Guido Barosio" <gbarosio(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Binary package from www.postgresql.org 121 33.799%
> Through operating system update tool 127 35.475%
> ~66%
>
> Compile from source 98 27.374%
>
> Hmmm, are we doing something with this information? I am not an expert
> at all, but I reccon that these numbers are at least a surprise to me.
>

Why is it a surprise?

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