From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
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To: | Craig Ringer <ringerc(at)ringerc(dot)id(dot)au> |
Cc: | Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>, "pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] One-click installer, Windows 7 32-bit, and icacls.exe |
Date: | 2011-10-05 00:22:27 |
Message-ID: | CA+OCxoyBRzUDcmxasZME9r7THhRD5BmWV8U4KCRsNYO+FsmTZQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wednesday, October 5, 2011, Craig Ringer <ringerc(at)ringerc(dot)id(dot)au> wrote:
> On 10/05/2011 03:46 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>>
>> Oh, the joys of supporting Windows :-)
>
> It's funny: for an OS with so relatively few "flavours" and versions, the
number of quirks and bizarre behaviors is quite remarkable. I guess the text
matrix isn't small, though:
>
> Windows
> XP / Vista / 7 / [8]
You forgot 2003, 2003R2, 2008 and 2008R2
> 32-bit / 64-bit
> Basic / Home / Pro or Business / Enterprise / Ultimate / Embedded
Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter for the server editions.
> On a domain / standalone
> Local admin account / non-admin account / UAC admin account
Domain admin.
> [too many different antivirus products to list]
> Service packs
> *endless* possible group policy configurations
>
> ... so it's not too surprising to see hard-to-reproduce weirdness popping
up.
That last one is one of the worst - I've seen all sorts of weird policies
from government users and large companies - they can take a *lot* of
figuring out. That's why we have 4 developers who work on the installers
(not all the time of course, but often in busy "bursts" for a few days or
more, and often in parallel, like today with 3 guys working on this issue),
along with 2 QA guys when we're building releases. It's easy to think
building and maintaining installers is easy - unfortunately, that can be
very far from the case for a product like Postgres.
--
Dave Page
Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
Twitter: @pgsnake
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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