Re: [HACKERS] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:

> 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)

And pull down/build/install the various extensions on pgFoundry? :)

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