| From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Vote on Windows installer links |
| Date: | 2009-07-09 09:15:36 |
| Message-ID: | 937d27e10907090215s1e60ff0emaf198351d4156b22@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Dave Page<dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> Well, to put this into perspective, not including ongoing development
> time, in the lead up to 8.4, we had 3 people working full time for a
> month or so on QA and subsequent development work. They tested the
> installers in depth on somewhere between 20 and 30 different OSs. We
> also have to test in multiple scenarios - for example, on Windows,
> installing on a domain controller may have certain issues, as may
> installing on a domain member. On some Linux distros, we may need to
> ensure things work as they should under Gnome, KDE and XFCE.
>
> Do not underestimate how much work building these installers actually is.
Correction: the current test schedule has 32 different OSs on it at present.
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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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