[dev] 2.3.x installer

[Anil Madhavapeddy]

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> Quoting "Brent J. Nordquist" <bjn@horde.org>:
>
> > The key, for me, is that I hope we can end up with a system where the
> > description of each config. setting is in just one place.  The reality
is
> > that if you have to add new settings to the config. file, and the
install
> > wizard(s), and the documentation, then things fall out of sync.
>
> Yes. This _killed_ setup.php3 - it's really horribly out of date.
>

So what do people think then?  Command-line?  It shouldn't be hard to write
a Perl script that groks the *.dist files into a setup utility.  PHP would
be ideal, of course, but I don't think many people have it installed as a
CGI executable though.

Anil



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Quoting Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>:

> So what do people think then?  Command-line?  It shouldn't be hard to write
> a Perl script that groks the *.dist files into a setup utility.  PHP would
> be ideal, of course, but I don't think many people have it installed as a
> CGI executable though.

I'd be okay with this, though I have to admit that I'm not jumping to write it 
myself. =) Ideally, a script would know how to put the proper information into 
config/registry.php as well.

-chuck

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> I'd be okay with this, though I have to admit that I'm not jumping to writeit 
> myself. =) Ideally, a script would know how to put the proper informationinto 
> config/registry.php as well.

... while I'm making feature requests, it would be ideal if said script could 
look at an existing conf file and its corresponding dist file and prompt you 
only for values that were missing from the conf file (i.e., new options that 
had shown up in the .dist file) (and ask you about pruning entries that have 
disappeared from the dist file?)

-chuck

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