| From: | David Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
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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>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Which Binary? |
| Date: | 2006-04-03 01:22:29 |
| Message-ID: | A5EE5D5B-52D6-4FBE-8276-3EBEFE47CA9A@kineticode.com |
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On Apr 2, 2006, at 17:47, Robert Treat wrote:
> 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?
/me blushes
Maybe I am a hard-core OSS hacker, I'm just not a C hacker (and not
familiar with the OSS C distribution stuff). But I'd be happy to work
on a patch that creates a table like that described by Tom. I think
that would help folks like me (and even soft core OSS hackers ;-)) a
lot.
Cheers,
David
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