Re: Standalone Windows Installation - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Standalone Windows Installation
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Msg-id dcc563d10810040002w2f91c848r8e5b692eb4c81c95@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Standalone Windows Installation  (Martin Gainty <mgainty@hotmail.com>)
Responses Re: Standalone Windows Installation  ("Dave Page" <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
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On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Martin Gainty <mgainty@hotmail.com> wrote:

> so what started off with a Installer version mismatch can easily turn into
> hours or even a day long task especially with binaries who may drop into
> windows/system32 folder (as is the case when jsvc with msvcrt -this is the
> MAIN runtime library for MS)
>
> In a perfect world where all environments, all resources and all capabilties
> of the operator are known the windows installer works as intended..change
> any version of any characteristic of the above requirements one iota and the
> installer breaks the install..
>
> I vote Postgres sans Windows Installer

I just prefer to use an os with a package manager.  I cannot believe
Microsoft hasn't bothered to at least steal one yet.

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