Re: Windows port installer - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Dave Page
Subject Re: Windows port installer
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Msg-id E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E40C399C@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk
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In response to Windows port installer  ("Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>)
Responses Re: Windows port installer
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Smith [mailto:cdsmith@twu.net]
> Sent: 13 July 2004 15:38
> To: Dave Page; pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
> Cc: pginstaller-devel@pgfoundry.org
> Subject: Re: [JDBC] Windows port installer
>
> There's not really a location to install JDBC drivers onto an
> operating system.  They are not native libraries, and are
> typically packaged with applications.  The closest thing you
> could do to an installation would be to locate JVM install
> directories via "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/JavaSoft/Java
> Runtime Environment/*/JavaHome", and drop the JAR file into
> lib/ext relative to that directory; but frankly I'd probably
> resent your doing so and certainly wouldn't find it very useful.

Hmm, probably not the best option as you suggest. I wasn't sure if there
was something like .NET's Global Assembly Cache into which such files
should be installed.

> If you need to give lip service to including JDBC drivers for
> political reasons, then the best approach is probably to just
> leave the JDBC driver JAR file somewhere, and provide
> documentation on how to find it.

That's certainly easy enough - by default it would probably end up in
C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\7.5\JDBC\. Are there any html docs etc. that
should/could be included?

Thanks, Dave.

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