On 07/14/2017 08:04 AM, Robert Eckhardt wrote: > Josh, > > I'd be interested in knowing what specific things could be done to make > you think that the Web version is no longer the 'ugly stepchild'. > > If I consider our (Pivotal's) current development process then the most > honest thing we could say is that the desktop application is our > afterthought. All of our development is done in the browser, our > acceptance environment is an application pushed into a garden container > hosted in the cloud. > > Admittedly, we haven't focused on the installation experience so if you > could explain why it is so painful we could look at merging some of the > things we are doing for acceptance into the application itself for > distribution.
Well, the immediate issues are addressed in two tickets: https://redmine.postgresql.org/issues/2496 https://redmine.postgresql.org/issues/2495 The summary of these is that, out of the box, the existing RPMs install 200MB of extra software and don't result in a working install. There is another, major issue I didn't attempt to address, which is offering a less-heavyweight webserver option than Apache HTTPD, mainly for container-based deployment. I don't have a strong candidate for this which is well-maintained upstream, though, because of the single-process requirement. There's a bunch of simple-python appservers, but none of them are well-packaged and maintained. -- Josh Berkus Containers & Databases Oh My!
