On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Martin Gainty <mgainty@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
