Re: Add Postgres.app to the Downloads page?

On May 9, 2012, at 7:56 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:

> On 10 May 2012 00:02, Josh Berkus  wrote:
>> On 5/9/12 3:45 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:41:54PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>>> All,
>>>> 
>>>> Before we get to beta, I'd love to add Postgres.app to the downloads
>>>> page.  Any objections?
>>> 
>>> What does that do?
>> 
>> User-friendly mac-native installer.
> 
> I agree with the idea. it's mostly for web developers who sometimes
> need to quickly run Postgres to test their application. Users don't
> have to install a service.

One of the most frequent questions I get from OS X users is "I'm having trouble installing Postgres - how do I do it?" - apparently building from source on OS X is in vogue :-)

That said, I would agree with adding the OS X installer to the downloads.  There are some alternative ways of installing it on OS X as well, but we want to make it as simple as possible.

Jonathan