Hi, On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:03 -0500, Doug McNaught wrote: > > We are actively looking for developers for the project. Please drop me > > an e-mail if you want to join this project. We will use Python, so you > > need to be a Python guy to join the project. We are in planning phase, > > if you join us earlier, we will be able to share more ideas. > > What value does this bring to systems that have a good package system > and up-to-date repositories? I can install Postgres today on Ubuntu > using a GUI tool, and install another GUI tool to configure and > adminsiter it. You can install, but what if you need different configure options than the package provides? This means a rebuild of the package. Instead, we will build and install that package via the installer. OTOH, exluding Synaptic that I hate to use, FC / RH does not have a GUI RPM interface for the repositories. So our installer will help them a lot. Also, our installer will have an option to download and install the prebuilt binaries from PostgreSQL FTP site (and possible other sites) > For systems like Solaris I can see it maybe being a win. Agreed. > Are you going to work with the underlying system's package manager, or > put everything in /usr/local? We'll work with the package manager -- I'm an RPM guy ;) Regards, -- The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. 1.503.667.4564 PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support Managed Services, Shared and Dedicated Hosting Co-Authors: plPHP, plPerlNG - http://www.commandprompt.com/
