Re: Let's get the OpenSCG packages listed on download

Dave Cramer

On 26 April 2016 at 10:21, Scott Mead <scottm(at)openscg(dot)com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 3:04 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
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>> > On 25 Apr 2016, at 20:05, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
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>> > -WWW,
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>> > In reviewing:
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>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAKq0gv+Gc0i8j=ktQSkMkLJmmTqUHAm=Eza7zLv+MdXCB6H+Bw@mail.gmail.com
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>> > It becomes clear that they are following the Open Source way in a more
>> transparent fashion that the other universal packages available.
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>> In what way exactly? I can't even find the source code on the website.
>> The existing installers are on git.postgresql.org.
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> Looks like an oversight, we're opening up the repo now.
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>> The other thing to be very careful of is confusing users. Are these
>> distributions interchangeable? What happens if a user tries to upgrade one
>> with the other?
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> That's the beauty of our update manager, It's consistent across
> platforms and makes updates a snap. That being said, our testing includes
> using each set of binaries against data directories created with different
> installers.
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Are you building PL/R ? This is particularly problematic for windows as it
requires the same version of R to be on the host system as what was used to
build it.

Dave