Re: Slashdot discussion

From: eschmid+sic(at)s(dot)netic(dot)de
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Graeme Merrall <graeme(at)inetix(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Slashdot discussion
Date: 2000-07-10 23:55:49
Message-ID: 20000711015549.60820@s.netic.de
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On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 08:40:27PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Graeme Merrall wrote:
>
> >
> > > Is anyone else noticing this: Everytime this sort of thing comes up a
> > > number of people invariably tell that they are using MySQL because it's
> > > easier to install, and that PostgreSQL is difficult ("a pain") to install.
> > >
> > > I've studied the MySQL installation instructions, and they don't strike me
> > > as inherently simpler. Is it only perception, or what can we do better?
> > Possibly because for most people the process is a simple './configure;
> > make; make install'
> >
> > Pgsql doesn't do this. Not the install process is any less better but
>
> huh? all i do is './configure;make;make install' ...

And what about CVS?

bash-2.01$ cd ../pgsql
bash-2.01$ cvs -z9 update -dP
cvs [update aborted]: authorization failed: server postgresql.org rejected
access
bash-2.01$

-Egon

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