Re: Movement of FAQ's - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Movement of FAQ's
Date
Msg-id 200410120105.i9C15Xl17920@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Movement of FAQ's  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Dave Page wrote:
>
> > No, and I don't think it should be outside. What I would like to avoid
> > if possible though, is having win32 problems split across different
> > FAQs. Most end users won't care about whether something is a Mingw or
> > Installer issue and will just get frustrated if they cannot find the
> > info they need.
> >
> > I guess the best answer might be to clearly mark the Mingw FAQ as a
> > diy-compilation FAQ, and include a link for 'normal' end users to the
> > installer FAQ in which we try to include all relevant q&a's.
>
> Is there a reason why this can't just be one FAQ with a 'Compiler Issues'
> section?  Are there *that* many Compiler specific issues that it warrants
> a whole FAQ to itself?

The compiler issues are of little interest to people who are downloading
pginstaller, which is the majority of people.  If he wants to pull the
install information into the pginstaller FAQ, fine, but then we don't
have instructions in our CVS on how to build using MinGW.

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