[postgis-devel] I guess some people really want a VC++ compiled PostGIS

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Paul Ramsey wrote:

> The MSI thing? I think the Win sysadm types in general like their
> MSI's since they are more scriptable. I mean, the same thing could be
> said about providing a "one click" installer for Linux... "huh? give
> me an RPM!" So, yeah. Ideally, there would be .deb for debian and .rpm
> for rhat and pkg for solaris and dmg for mac and msi for win32... but
> man, who has that kind of time!? :)
> 
> P

Yeah; the nice thing about MSIs is that Windows Administrators can 
install them remotely across the network which requires administrator 
privilege even if a normal user logs in. There's a lot to be said for that.

Possibly we could talk to the Debian and Red Hat guys about including a 
debian/ directory and/or .spec file if it would help make upstream 
packaging easier.


ATB,

M-D.

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