Re: Suggestion: Which Binary? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Suggestion: Which Binary?
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Msg-id 26636.1144027202@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Suggestion: Which Binary?  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
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Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> 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?

I didn't say anything about turning people away; I said that I didn't
like this particular approach to documenting the behavior.  See
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-04/msg00026.php
        regards, tom lane


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