| From: | "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Add Postgres.app to the Downloads page? |
| Date: | 2012-05-10 04:44:23 |
| Message-ID: | F6A99C20-1813-4B00-B6F7-45DFB14FC07D@excoventures.com |
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On May 9, 2012, at 7:56 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On 10 May 2012 00:02, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>> On 5/9/12 3:45 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:41:54PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> Before we get to beta, I'd love to add Postgres.app to the downloads
>>>> page. Any objections?
>>>
>>> What does that do?
>>
>> User-friendly mac-native installer.
>
> I agree with the idea. it's mostly for web developers who sometimes
> need to quickly run Postgres to test their application. Users don't
> have to install a service.
One of the most frequent questions I get from OS X users is "I'm having trouble installing Postgres - how do I do it?" - apparently building from source on OS X is in vogue :-)
That said, I would agree with adding the OS X installer to the downloads. There are some alternative ways of installing it on OS X as well, but we want to make it as simple as possible.
Jonathan
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