Re: Roadmap for a Win32 port

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Howe [mailto:howe@carcass.dhs.org]
> Sent: 06 June 2002 02:37
> To: Bruce Momjian
> Cc: PostgreSQL-development
> Subject: Re: Roadmap for a Win32 port
>
>
> Hello Bruce,
>
> Wednesday, June 5, 2002, 1:33:44 AM, you wrote:
>
> BM> INSTALLER
> BM> ---------
>
> BM> We clearly need an installer that is zero-hassle for
> users.  We need
> BM> to decide on a direction for this.
> I suggest Nullsoft install system
> (http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/). It's > real good and very
> simple to use. I can help on this if you want.

I think that a Windows Installer compatible package would be better as
it would allow us to build the package as a merge module which others
could use in their installers for their PostgreSQL based apps, allowing
one installation to install everything they require easily and (more
importantly) correctly. An example of this can be found in the psqlODBC
installer.

I can handle this if required.

> BM> ENVIRONMENT
>
> I also would like to empathize that probably a small GUI for
> controlling the PostgreSQL service/application would be nice.

I'm happy to add such code to pgAdmin - seems like the natural thing to
do (to me at least!).

Regards, Dave.