[development] drupal Windows and PostgreSQL

[Ivan Sergio Borgonovo]

On Wed, 20 May 2009 12:02:47 +0000
Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Quoting Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail at webthatworks.it>:
> 
> > I was recently positively surprised to see that the Windows
> > installer of PostgreSQL offers you the chance to install Drupal
> > as well.
> >
> 
> Which distribution of PostgreSQL?  There seem to be a few.

It looks like the official one with the installer.
http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.3.7/win32/

I admit I didn't try to install Drupal on XP.
My interest in PostgreSQL this time was a quick&dirty reporting tool
and I wasn't that willing to see which other packages was going to
install other than Drupal.

> > This honour our CMS and it should be an incentive to avoid to
> > consider Postgresql as a poster child.

> > I wonder if any other open source DB comes bundled with Drupal on
> > Windows.

> You could offer one.

I've no personal interest in Drupal on Windows currently... but
still that lower the bar of a lot of people willing to try Drupal on
Windows quite a bit.

Actually the overall installation process of the things I needed was
painless but I didn't try to install Drupal on XP.
If installing Drupal with that bundle is going to be as easy as what
I tried, that package is really going to be a good tool to promote
Drupal... with all the consequences a Drupal/PostgreSQL installation
may imply on a larger scale.


-- 
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
http://www.webthatworks.it