If you are afraid of the quality of the windows port, then label it as a BETA.
When everyone is fully satisfied that the kinks have been worked out, call it a RELEASE. It is a bad practice to use the world as a BETA test without their knowledge. Even as a BETA, it will be plenty popular. In 6 months, after all the little idiosyncrasies have perked up to the surface and been fixed, then release it as a formal RELEASE with a big fanfare. IMO-YMMV. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc > G. Fournier > Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 11:32 AM > To: Bruce Momjian > Cc: Joshua D. Drake; Tom Lane; Rob Butler; Dennis Bjorklund; > Richard Huxton; Andrew Dunstan; Neil Conway; PostgreSQL Win32 > port list; PostgreSQL-development > Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [HACKERS] Win32 release warning > > > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > >>> > >>> Also, we probably have more beta testers on Win32 than on > all Unix > >>> platforms combined, though they might not be testing as > thoroughly > >>> as Unix. > >> > >> > >> Maybe I am just being dense, but isn't this obvious? I > mean this is > >> the first release of the Win32 code. Anybody who would be > willing to > >> put it in production without extensive testing deserves everything > >> they get. > >> > >> Then again we are talking about people who willinging use > Windows as > >> the primary platform. Forget I brought it up. > > > > I think there is concern that if the Win32 port is buggy > that it will > > give the project a bad reputation. It will probably be > distributed to > > many who have never used PostgreSQL before. > > Since I imagine 99.9% of Windows users are going to use > pginstaller to > install it ... has anyone looked into putting a WARNING pop > up window as > part of the install itself? Or does such already exist? > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
