Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> I've studied the MySQL installation instructions, and they don't strike me
> as inherently simpler. Is it only perception, or what can we do better?
IMHO it's partly a documentation problem, and partly a matter of people
not having looked at recent versions. A few years back it did take some
know-how to get Postgres installed.
I think the install-procedure docs in 7.0 are markedly better than they
were before, but they could still use further improvement.
Your work on configure/build/install scripts will help too of course ;-)
regards, tom lane