Re: Windows installation notes
От | Greg Sabino Mullane |
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Тема | Re: Windows installation notes |
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Msg-id | e745dea3aedb7e3682b886b0afad7a81@biglumber.com обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Windows installation notes ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>) |
Список | pgsql-hackers |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for responding to this and fixing what you could. I understand now that a lot of the things are Window-isms and thus not fixable. > It's the default size for a Windows Installer installation program. We > could make it larger, but then we'd not look very normal any more. > AFAIK, it can't be made changeable. How about a popup README option? (e.g. opens notepad for easier reading) >> http://postgresql.org/windows.html > It's also available as > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_windows.html > > Not sure if it's all tha tmuch better. Not really. Anyone listening that could create a simpler URL? Redirects are cheap after all... > More explanations would help throughout the process, such as > explaining exactly what "Initialize database cluster" means, > and what a port number is. >> Any specifics on how to do that would certainly be appreciated :-) Heh. No idea. But is there a Windows TODO this could go on? >> FAT32 partition. Should this not have come up much earlier?=20 >> For example, when I chose the partition? > We can't put it up earlier, because it's only relevant if you actually > do an initdb. We'll show it as soon as we've found that out. Sure, but doing an initdb is the default action. Can't we do a simple check early on just to let the user know that "this directory cannot be used for the data directory"? > Will fix. Been planning to do those screenshots for a long time, > just never actually did it. They're up now, and look great! >> For the conf files in the menus: is there a way to make the=20 >> default editor wordpad instead of notepad? > We could, but why do you want it? Specifically, I see several problems > with using wordpad as the default: > 1) It doesn't live in the same place always, depending on the language > of windows. (Yeha, we can work around this fairly easily) Can't you just say "wordpad %1" or whatever the Win convention is. > 2) You can install Windows without it. You can't install Windows iwthout > notepad, it'll always be there. Can't argue with that. But we could test for wordpad first... > 3) In some cases, Wordpad suddently decides you want to use Word format > for your .txt file, when you've pasted something in it for example. This > is really bad. I've never really figured out when or why, but I've > seenit happen. Does it depend on the extension? The conf files should be safe if so... > This is because we don't support readline on windows because it breaks > in most locales. Ouch. Those poor Windows users. > Thanks for all your comments! Thanks for all the work you and everyone else has done on making this installer! - -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200512012155 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFDj7f1vJuQZxSWSsgRAn9uAJ0fin3nzy81+/aqQ+dghfXIS7XqZQCgza/8 d4VGoLwg8LU1Ik1XZRPL4AU= =SZy9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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