| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: EDB taking over? |
| Date: | 2009-07-08 16:34:59 |
| Message-ID: | 20090708163459.GD5053@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Dave Page wrote:
> On 7/8/09, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> > Andreas Pflug wrote:
> >
> >> But there's also the aspect that the postgres download page for Windows,
> >> Linux and MacOSX will redirect to an EDB page, which really was the
> >> first thing that irritated me (forgot to mention). Why is that so, why
> >> not a postgres page? Do we want/need EDB to officially host postgres
> >> stuff, esp with PostgreSQL listed as one of EDB's featured products?
> >
> > Right. We have a working mirror system. Why aren't the one-click
> > packages hosted there?
>
> Because, when we first discussed the one-click installers with
> community members at pgcon last year, a number of ppl said they felt
> the downloads should remain on our site so it was blatantly clear
> where they came from.
Yeah, but that was when we still had the MSI installer which was the
main Windows installer. Now the situation is completely different.
There was no warning whatsoever that that installer was going to
disappear.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
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