Re^2: PostgreSQL, Emacs, and other groupieware

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Re^3: PostgreSQL, Emacs, and other groupieware by hardburn (Abbot) on Aug 01, 2004 at 14:25 UTC
There is absolutely a positive correlation between ease of installation and the quality of a product. On my system, installing Emacs is this diffcult: `sudo emerge emacs` [download] And the rest is done. However: `sudo emerge IE` [download] Doesn't work. I therfore conclude that IE is a crappy browser for having a poor installation mechanism on Gentoo GNU/Linux. ---- send money to your kernel via the boot loader.. This and more wisdom available from Markov Hardburn.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: PostgreSQL, Emacs, and other groupieware by Golo (Friar) on Aug 01, 2004 at 03:48 UTC
Software without an installer is incomplete and unlikely to be able to compete with traditional commercial software Ever thought about the possibility that some software might be targeted at a group with a certain skill level? This could be the reason why most people don't try to blame the software to be incomplete just because the installation and configuration cannot be done using a "admin for dummy" wizard. Despite the fact that I often get annoyed by time consuming installations, I think that this even is a big benefit as I am forced to learn something on the way. IMHO, providing easy installation wizards in areas where some knowledge is badly required is a big mistake. I cannot speak for emacs, but for PostgreSQL I would suggest that you should take your installation trouble as an indication for a problem at your end. I mean, why do you try to install it on a platform (Win32) it's not designed for anyways? Golo (who just couldn't resist anymore and agrees to davidj- real admins get it done, and the rest should leave it to the real ones.)	[reply]
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