| From: | "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Martin Gainty" <mgainty(at)hotmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Jörn Heid <heid(at)hs-heilbronn(dot)de>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Standalone Windows Installation |
| Date: | 2008-10-04 07:02:59 |
| Message-ID: | dcc563d10810040002w2f91c848r8e5b692eb4c81c95@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Martin Gainty <mgainty(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
> so what started off with a Installer version mismatch can easily turn into
> hours or even a day long task especially with binaries who may drop into
> windows/system32 folder (as is the case when jsvc with msvcrt -this is the
> MAIN runtime library for MS)
>
> In a perfect world where all environments, all resources and all capabilties
> of the operator are known the windows installer works as intended..change
> any version of any characteristic of the above requirements one iota and the
> installer breaks the install..
>
> I vote Postgres sans Windows Installer
I just prefer to use an os with a package manager. I cannot believe
Microsoft hasn't bothered to at least steal one yet.
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