Re: [HACKERS] Win32 release warning

["Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>]

If you are afraid of the quality of the windows port, then label it as a
BETA.

When everyone is fully satisfied that the kinks have been worked out,
call it a RELEASE.

It is a bad practice to use the world as a BETA test without their
knowledge.

Even as a BETA, it will be plenty popular.  In 6 months, after all the
little idiosyncrasies have perked up to the surface and been fixed, then
release it as a formal RELEASE with a big fanfare.

IMO-YMMV.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org 
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Marc 
> G. Fournier
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 11:32 AM
> To: Bruce Momjian
> Cc: Joshua D. Drake; Tom Lane; Rob Butler; Dennis Bjorklund; 
> Richard Huxton; Andrew Dunstan; Neil Conway; PostgreSQL Win32 
> port list; PostgreSQL-development
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Win32 release warning
> 
> 
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Also, we probably have more beta testers on Win32 than on 
> all Unix 
> >>> platforms combined, though they might not be testing as 
> thoroughly 
> >>> as Unix.
> >>
> >>
> >> Maybe I am just being dense, but isn't this obvious? I 
> mean this is 
> >> the first release of the Win32 code. Anybody who would be 
> willing to 
> >> put it in production without extensive testing deserves everything 
> >> they get.
> >>
> >> Then again we are talking about people who willinging use 
> Windows as 
> >> the primary platform. Forget I brought it up.
> >
> > I think there is concern that if the Win32 port is buggy 
> that it will 
> > give the project a bad reputation.  It will probably be 
> distributed to 
> > many who have never used PostgreSQL before.
> 
> Since I imagine 99.9% of Windows users are going to use 
> pginstaller to 
> install it ... has anyone looked into putting a WARNING pop 
> up window as 
> part of the install itself?  Or does such already exist?
> 
> ----
> Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services 
(http://www.hub.org)
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