Re: EDB taking over? - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: EDB taking over?
Date
Msg-id 20090708163459.GD5053@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: EDB taking over?  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
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Dave Page wrote:
> On 7/8/09, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> > Andreas Pflug wrote:
> >
> >> But there's also the aspect that the postgres download page for Windows,
> >> Linux and MacOSX will redirect to an EDB page, which really was the
> >> first thing that irritated me (forgot to mention). Why is that so, why
> >> not a postgres page? Do we want/need  EDB to officially host postgres
> >> stuff, esp with PostgreSQL listed as one of EDB's featured products?
> >
> > Right.  We have a working mirror system.  Why aren't the one-click
> > packages hosted there?
>
> Because, when we first discussed the one-click installers with
> community members at pgcon last year, a number of ppl said they felt
> the downloads should remain on our site so it was blatantly clear
> where they came from.

Yeah, but that was when we still had the MSI installer which was the
main Windows installer.  Now the situation is completely different.
There was no warning whatsoever that that installer was going to
disappear.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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