> Because EDB is a VC-funded company and may someday be sold, I agree
> that it's not healthy to be dependant on them for installers. One
> way to resolve this is for more people to help and get Dimitri's
> extension packaging system finished; if we had that, the issue of
> packaging all drivers and components would be come vastly decreased,
> and supporting multi-operating-system installers much easier.
> However, I've yet to see anyone arguing for an change of installers
> on this list volunteer to help Dimitri, and his project is liable to
> not complete this year due to lack of help.
Another way to resolve this would be for EnterpriseDB to open-source
the code used to build the one-click installers, which, is exactly
what we have done.
Since we have already open-sourced the code, the community only
depends on EnterpriseDB for manpower.
-- Korry