Re: New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI Installer for

Hi,

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:03 -0500, Doug McNaught wrote:

> > We are actively looking for developers for the project. Please drop me
> > an e-mail if you want to join this project. We will use Python, so you
> > need to be a Python guy to join the project. We are in planning phase,
> > if you join us earlier, we will be able to share more ideas.
>
> What value does this bring to systems that have a good package system
> and up-to-date repositories? I can install Postgres today on Ubuntu
> using a GUI tool, and install another GUI tool to configure and
> adminsiter it.

You can install, but what if you need different configure options than
the package provides? This means a rebuild of the package. Instead, we
will build and install that package via the installer.

OTOH, exluding Synaptic that I hate to use, FC / RH does not have a GUI
RPM interface for the repositories. So our installer will help them a
lot. Also, our installer will have an option to download and install the
prebuilt binaries from PostgreSQL FTP site (and possible other sites)

> For systems like Solaris I can see it maybe being a win.

Agreed.

> Are you going to work with the underlying system's package manager, or
> put everything in /usr/local?

We'll work with the package manager -- I'm an RPM guy ;)

Regards,
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