On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 11:30 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > Nikhil G. Daddikar wrote: > > > I strongly recommend that you start > > supporting the win32 binary on postgresql.org site again because that > > used to work till 8.3 and enterprisedb is failing for a long time. > > Oh: As for the old installer - are you volunteering to maintain it? It > wasn't maintaining its self. Working with Windows installers is an ugly, > unrewarding job where you're constantly battling a new variety of weird > issues due to various breakage and brain-death on the systems the > installer is being used on. People complain "it doesn't work" and then > won't provide enough information to actually find out why - they expect > you to have psychic powers and/or a magic fix-it wand. They angrily > demand an instant fix, as if they'd paid for a product they had some > kind of right to support for. > > No wonder nobody likes doing it! > > Are you going to take up that workload? Or just demand that somebody > else does it? Although I can understand the frustration, I think a more adequate response would be: If EDB was failing for a long time, we would hear a lot more about it. They host the most downloaded installer .Org has. Joshua D. Drake > > -- > Craig Ringer > -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering Respect is earned, not gained through arbitrary and repetitive use or Mr. or Sir. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
