Re: Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone?

Dave Page wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: mlw [mailto:pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com]
>>Sent: 03 December 2002 06:17
>>To: psqlodbc; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
>>Subject: [HACKERS] Shrinkwrap Windows Product, any issues? Anyone?
>>
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>>I am working on getting a shrink-wrapped version of
>>PostgreSQL for Windows
>>
>>Currently it installs a customized version of Cygwin,
>>PostgreSQL 7.2.3,
>>cygipc, psqlodbc, and pgadminII
>>
>>I currently have the setup done.
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>>The target audience is not the enterprise, it is aimed at
>>people using
>>Access wanting to upgrade.
>>
>>I've looked long and hard and can't find any license issues.
>>Does anyone
>>know of any that I may have missed? As far as I can see, as long as I
>>maintain GPL restrictions, I should be fine.
>>
>>
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>No problems with pgAdmin, though I do have to wonder how you've done the
>installer?
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>Regards, Dave.
>

Brute force, of course!

Seriously, I have hidden the cygwin environment and simply called it
PostgreSQL. I am managing all he environment variables in my installer,
and I am using Windows batch files to start bash which executes the
PostgreSQL comands.

I am using PGAdmin as the administration tool

It really looks slick