Re: New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI Installer for

From: Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI Installer for
Date: 2006-01-31 07:49:40
Message-ID: 43DF1694.1080602@wildenhain.de
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Joshua D. Drake schrieb:
...
> As more and more people come on board people are going to want to
> download a .exe (a metaphor),
> double click and have it open an installer, they will then want to click
> next, next, continue, finish.
>
> You don't get that with apt-get install.

Well you can use a frontend and search and click as well. I see no
problem - and it really works, as opposed to:

> There is a reason that even Oracle has a graphical installer on Linux,
> because most people installing
> the software:
>
> A. Don't know how to use it
> B. Probably don't know how to use Linux
> C. Don't want to.
Hehehe. Did you actually use this installer? I did! And lets tell you,
you dont come by w/o any linux/unix knowledge.

Regards
Tino

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