Re: Problem trying to compile PgAdmin

On 27/05/2011 23:21, Dave Page wrote:
> But we do offer source downloads.

Indeed. I must have missed that earlier... probably because I clicked on
“Development” because that is indeed what I was thinking of doing. Maybe
there should be a link in the Development section that indicates that
the source can be downloaded in the Download section.

> That is why we have simple instructions on the website.

Hahaha... “simple instructions” :-D. All it says is:

“Under Windows, we recommend using TortoiseGIT, which is free software.”

And that’s it. Nice “simple instructions” there. All I could get
TortoiseGIT to do was output completely useless messages like...

http://bit.ly/k4t9BB
http://bit.ly/jLMqI6
http://bit.ly/m7LaH5

So I tried using this “MSysGit” instead, which admittedly finally did
the job, but only by installing a whole frickin’ Linux-like shell in
which it could run. I managed to check out the pgAdmin source with that,
but once I exited that shell, I can now no longer find any way to bring
it back — there is a batch file in its installation directory, but that
only opens another cmd.exe window. Very useful.

Trying to use git.exe itself directly just gives this useless error:

http://bit.ly/jPRHTh

One would have thought that installing a program with all its
dependencies should be a solved problem by now. Clearly git has not
quite arrived in the 21st century yet.

Now, don’t get me wrong — I’m not saying any of this is your fault :).
But it *is* a problem and it *does* pose a lot of hoops to jump through.

Timwi