Re: (A) native Windows port

From: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
To: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, "Jan Wieck" <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, "HACKERS" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: (A) native Windows port
Date: 2002-07-01 16:36:56
Message-ID: 200207011236.56301.lamar.owen@wgcr.org
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On Wednesday 26 June 2002 11:48 pm, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> I suggest that pgAdmin is included in the install process. Imagine it - a
> win32 person downloads a single .exe, with contents bzip2'd. They run the
> installer, it asks them to agree to license, shows splash screen, asks them
> where to install it, gets them to supply an installation password and
> installs pgadmin. It could set up a folder in their start menu with
> start/stop, edit configs, uninstall and run pgadmin.

> It would all work out of the box and would do wonderful things for the
> Postgres community.

I like this idea, but let me just bring one little issue to note: are you
going to handle upgrades, and if so, how? How are you going to do a major
version upgrade?
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11

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