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I downloaded the OSX .pkg installer and didn't see anything in /Applications or /opt after running it and telling it to install to my root drive. Just glancing at some docs on your site I see pipeline-init, so doing a find on / to find out where it placed the binaries see it installed to:

/usr/lib/pipelinedb/usr/lib/pipelinedb/bin/pipeline-init

Is this intentional?

EDIT:

After playing around with the .pkg file it looks like the packed Payload contains '/usr/bin/pipelinedb/usr/lib/pipelinedb' which is probably the problem. I see broken symlinks for pipeline-init etc in /usr/bin pointing to /usr/lib/pipelinedb, so I'm guessing this repetition of the path above is a mistake.

Also I see a postinstall script creating a symlink from pipeline to psql. This seems like a bad idea as psql is pretty universal already as the name for the PostgreSQL CLI binary, maybe 'pipesql' might be better?



Sorry about that, OSX packaging is a bit finicky right now. We'll publish a package with more sensible defaults very shortly.


A Homebrew (http://brew.sh/) package might be a better approach that a .pkg. It's easier to maintain for you, and, definitely easier for a user. Not all OSX users use Homebrew, of course, but I think many in your audience would.


Homebrew would be nice too.


Great thanks! Looking forward to checking it out.


We just updated http://www.pipelinedb.com/download/0.7.7/osx.

Please shoot me an email (I'm Derek) if you have any issues installing this package. Thanks for your patience!


There was an error with init and created an issue in github

https://github.com/pipelinedb/pipelinedb/issues/1025




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