| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, David Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Which Binary? |
| Date: | 2006-04-03 01:20:02 |
| Message-ID: | 26636.1144027202@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> writes:
> ISTM that by any measure of the general population, David Wheeler is a
> hard-core geek. :-) Actually by most measures of the "programming/oss
> community" he is a hard core geek. But he still got tripped up by this. A
> lot of people never get passed ./configure;make;make install even though they
> do a lot of coding on oss projects. Why turn these people away?
I didn't say anything about turning people away; I said that I didn't
like this particular approach to documenting the behavior. See
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-04/msg00026.php
regards, tom lane
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