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