Re: Adding PGInstaller to the Downloads section

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
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 19:06:28
Message-ID: 20180828190628.GB25450@momjian.us
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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.

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