Comment 10 for bug 1225

On Mi, 2007-01-17 at 16:48 +0000, Murray Cumming wrote:
> Yes, but the UI offers the new way and makes the new way the default, so
> users will experience badness/crashes.

What if clicking on the "let's do it the new way" button would spawn the
process that installs postgres? (We already patched gnome-system-tools
to do that.)

> Could you give an example of such a situation? If they installed Glom
> then they probably want what Glom needs.

Users A and B work on their company laptops and use the postgres server
on machine C, which is in their office.

I wouldn't want them to install postgres, if they don't need it.

> One problem you probably do have is that the regular debian/Ubuntu
> postgres installation causes a postgres instance to be run at start up
> (though the user can stop it in the Services control panel). That makes
> sense if you install postgres directly, but it's not needed or used by
> Glom.

Phew, I think that's hard to disable. CCing Martin.

> That's an idea, but I want self-hosting to be the default, not an
> additional option.

It wouldn't be "an option", it'd install postgres the first time it's
unavailable and "use selfhosting" is clicked, but work out of the box
after that.