| From: | "Merlin Moncure" <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Claudio Natoli" <claudio(dot)natoli(at)memetrics(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-hackers-win32 " <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Binary installer |
| Date: | 2004-01-23 14:11:40 |
| Message-ID: | 303E00EBDD07B943924382E153890E5434AA6D@cuthbert.rcsinc.local |
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Claudio Natoli wrote:
> > Clearly we will need an installer for a binary distribution.
The nullsoft installer is quite nice. Not sure about Microsoft .msi
packaging...I'm sure that's pretty easy to work with, too. The
installer should besides unzip, offer to run a few batch files (initdb,
etc), set up the environment, and offer set up the postmaster as a
service.
A good windows program has no internal dependencies on the registry.
Postgres is already set up to use the environment which is a more
flexible setup than the registry for servers.
Merlin
p.s.
Is there any way to keep mingw/msys from spamming console windows when
compiling? It's very irritating :(.
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