Wednesday 5 October 2011

StackBuilder Package Updates


If you've ever used one of the PostgreSQL installers for v8.2 or above, either the old Windows MSI installer or the newer "one click" installers that also support Linux and Mac, you'll probably have come across StackBuilder. For those that haven't or those that never found the time, StackBuilder was introduced with the PostgreSQL 8.2 installer to allow us to distribute different components of PostgreSQL independently of the server itself. Originally in 8.0/8.1, the installer included lots of additional products, such as the ODBC, JDBC, OLEDB and .NET drivers, Slony and PostGIS.  As you can imagine, this proved near impossible to maintain as we needed to try to coordinate the release of products from multiple independently run projects.

StackBuilder was the solution to this. The installers were cut down to essentially include just the PostgreSQL server, pgAdmin and StackBuilder, which allowed us to provide all the other components on independent release schedules. It also gave us a vehicle to encourage adoption of PostgreSQL by other Open Source projects, by including packages for them as well, so with a few mouse clicks a user could be up and running with a "stack" like Drupal, Apache, PHP and PostgreSQL on their OS of choice. We made a conscious decision to include software other than well known Open Source products in the StackBuilder catalog as well, with the aim of giving the user as much choice of product to use with PostgreSQL as possible - as a result we have products in the catalog from multiple vendors and projects, as well as the "PostgreSQL family" projects. If you're interested in having a PostgreSQL related product included in the catalog, please contact me to discuss how we can make that happen.

So, with the refresher course out of the way, todays blog post is prompted by the latest round of updates that I've been adding to the catalog - we've got 42 updates to the Open Source packages, as well as 18 new packages, including for the first time, pgBouncer, pgMemcache and Drupal 7.

Updates:

  • Apache/PHP 2.2.20-5.3.8: Linux32, Linux64, Mac, Win32
  • mediaWiki 1.17.0: Linux32, Linux64, Mac, Win32
  • pgJDBC 9.0-801: Linux32, Linux64, Mac, Win32
  • phpBB 9.0-801: Linux32, Linux64, Mac, Win32
  • PostGIS 1.3.6 for PG 8.3: Linux32, Linux64, Mac
  • PostGIS 1.4.2 for PG 8.4: Linux32, Linux64, Mac
  • PostGIS 1.5.3 for PG 9.0: Linux32, Linux64, Mac
  • psqlODBC 09.00.0310: Linux32, Linux64, Mac, Win32
  • Slony 1.2.22 for PG 8.3: Linux32, Linux64, Mac
  • Slony 2.0.7 for PG 8.4: Linux32, Linux64, Mac
  • Slony 2.0.7 for PG 9.0: Linux32, Linux64, Mac
  • Npgsql 2.0.11: Linux32, Linux64, Mac, Win32

New releases:

  • Drupal 7:  Linux32, Linux64, Mac, Win32
  • pgBouncer:  Linux32, Linux64
  • pgMemcache 2.0.1 for PG 9.0: Linux32, Linux64, Mac
  • pgMemcache 2.0.1 for PG 9.1: Linux32, Linux64, Mac
  • PostGIS 1.5.3 for PG 9.1: Linux32, Linux64, Mac
  • Slony 2.0.7 for PG 9.1: Linux32, Linux64, Mac

Note that the PostGIS community maintain the PostGIS installers for Windows which will be released as soon as they're available. Windows updates for Slony are still in development due to an issue found in QA. Mac and Windows builds of pgBouncer are on their way.

To download and install any of these packages, just run StackBuilder - if you don't have it already you can get it with the PostgreSQL Installers.

Enjoy :-)

5 comments:

  1. Dave,

    FYI for those who are impatient we have the 32-bit 1.5.3 Windows binaries posted on http://www.postgis.org/download/windows/#windbinaries (for 8.3,8.4,9.0, 9.1). We are doing some testing on windows boxes before we push out the stack builder setups. Hope to have that done this weekend.

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  2. Great, thanks Regina. Are you planning to produce 64 bit builds of PostGIS for Windows as well?

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  3. We are still struggling with building the 64-bit so sadly haven't been successful yet.

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  4. Sorry to hear that. Let me know if I can help at all.

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  5. BTW the download page only works if cookies are enabled - unfortunatley there is nothing on that site that tells you about this, so you are just seeing a "thank you" screen and nothin happens. I would assume that many admins and developers, who are downloading from there, have a strict cookie policy as well to not be tracked by anyone, however it would be wise to build the download site degradable in a way that there was at least one hint like "you need cookies here"...

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