Re: off topic: how to "start" Glom

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:05 +0100, Nicolas Chevreux wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 08:36 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > How did you "allow the access" exactly? I assume that "create the user
> > in Postgres" means using createuser (as on the wiki) but answering no
> > for the "can create new databases" question.
>
> No, it means doing what's written on the second part of the "initial
> configuration" page. I answered yes to the "can create database"
> question.

OK, so I don't understand what you did to make it work, if you followed
the instructions the first time. Sorry if I'm getting confused, but I
want to know for sure if there's a problem with the instructions.

> > The version in debian crashes often when adding new fields. I suspect
> > that's fixed in cvs.
>
> How can you update an installation with the cvs (sorry, total newbie
> here)?.

Sorry, that's difficult, and it would really be best to wait for a new
release and for Ubuntu to package it.

> > Empty of data or empty of fields and/or tables?
>
> Empty fields and tables. The tables exist, but there is nothing in them.

Yes, that's normal. The example does not yet add any example data - it
just creates an example database structure and layout. I do want to make
it add example data in a future version.

Murray