From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Link to zip/tar binaries web page |
Date: | 2011-01-25 21:45:34 |
Message-ID: | 201101252145.p0PLjYF13875@momjian.us |
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 18:15, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > I have just learned that EnterpriseDB provides both platform-specific
> > binaries and platform-specific zip/tar files, which are hosted here:
> >
> > ? ? ? ?http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgbindownload
> >
> > We link to that page from our Windows download page:
> >
> > ? ? ? ?http://www.postgresql.org/download/windows
> >
> > ? ? ? ?Advanced users can also download a zip archive of the binaries,
> > ? ? ? ?without the installer.
> >
> > but not from any of the other platform web page, like Linux:
> >
> > ? ? ? ?http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux
> >
> > That seems inconsistent, and I had to help someone yesterday who was
> > looking for the Linux tar file.
> >
> > Should we make a change to have these be more consistent?
>
> I guess we could. Did you run across this by accident, or did somebody
> actually ask you? I havent' heard a single person *ever* ask for
> binaries-no-installer for Linux - given that you already have the
> choice of a proper platform package, or a gui installer, or source
> (which is much easier to work with on Linux than on Windows, making it
> a much more reasonable option)
>
> There are already painfully many options on that download page...
Selena got a problem report about downloading that was forwarded to core
and I discussed it with the user, so it was an actual case. I didn't
even know of the zip files myself so it took a little research. The
user had 200 servers to install, and I guess wanted the EDB binaries; I
did not ask why.
--
Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
+ It's impossible for everything to be true. +
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