Re: One click installer a bit bare?

On 10/04/2011 06:07 AM, Dave Page wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Joshua D. Drake<jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> So,
>>
>> Just for giggles, I downloaded the one click installer for Windows (9.1)
>> today and I was a little disappointed. The installer doesn't make any
>> mention of where to find help, how to subscribe to lists or anything like
>> that? It seems that we should be promoting the community more within the
>> installer.
>
> There's not a great deal of opportunity to do that well in the
> installer itself - however the installer does add menu shortcuts to
> the bundled HTML docs for pgAdmin and PostgreSQL, and an Installation
> Notes doc which directs people to the mailing lists etc. if they need
> help. Do you have any suggestions on what we might do better?

It may be minimal, but the last page of the installer could have a
button to take them to support page of .Org?

>
>> It would be one thing if the installer was hosted under .Org but it is
>> hosted externally with a giant please register and join our developer
>> community (which is the EDB community, not the .Org one).
>>
>> Can we get some community resources a little better represented?
>
> I am working on a new design for that page at the moment, following a
> discussion I had with Ed on that very topic last week. My aim is to do
> exactly what you suggest.

Glad to hear it.

JD

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