[dev] 2.3.x installer

[Atif Ghaffar]

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> 
> 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.

Looks like a job for Atif.




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Quoting Jon Parise <jon@csh.rit.edu>:

> I'd really like to steer clear of the web-based configuration.  There
> were all of those silly permissions issues, and it just felt like a
> lot of bloat for a (generally) one- or two-time operation.

Fair enough, perl works on windows pretty well. :-)

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Subject: Re: [dev] 2.3.x installer

Quoting Max Kalika <max@the-triumvirate.net>:

> Fair enough, perl works on windows pretty well. :-)

Yeah, this is true. A thought - what about things like setting up database 
tables? It might be nice if we offered a little manager that could find .sql 
scripts, verify them with you, get auth info, and do table creation... or is 
that just eye candy and outside our scope?

-chuck

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