On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Dave Page<dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> Well, to put this into perspective, not including ongoing development
> time, in the lead up to 8.4, we had 3 people working full time for a
> month or so on QA and subsequent development work. They tested the
> installers in depth on somewhere between 20 and 30 different OSs. We
> also have to test in multiple scenarios - for example, on Windows,
> installing on a domain controller may have certain issues, as may
> installing on a domain member. On some Linux distros, we may need to
> ensure things work as they should under Gnome, KDE and XFCE.
>
> Do not underestimate how much work building these installers actually is.
Correction: the current test schedule has 32 different OSs on it at present.
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Dave Page
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