On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 16:33 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 15:12 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
>> >> Hey Andrew
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Windows came late to the buildfarm. According to the CVS log, the buildfarm
>> >> > client was first checked in in Sept 2004, got initial Mingw support in Jan
>> >> > 2005 and MSVC support in March 2007, when we finally got some of the tools
>> >> > sorted out.
>> >>
>> >> Right - but the buildfarm isn't a feature being offered to end users.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Neither is this. These people are developers or DBAs after all.
>>
>> I know I'm a little slower than normal this week as I've had some sort
>> of virus, but say what? I was kinda under the impression that
>> developers/DBAs are end users of PostgreSQL. They make up a
>> significant percentage of people that I know than install, configure
>> and use it.
>
> My point is... if they are a developer or DBA, they aren't going to have
> any trouble dealing with these issues.
What issues? Lack of support from PGAN, or having to download and
install a complex build environment weighing in at over a gigabyte of
downloads, just to install an add-on?
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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
