[dev] Horde Installer

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Jon Parise <jon@horde.org>:

> Also (and I believe Chuck missed this part because he left
> earlier on Friday), our Horde code is being viewed as "exemplary"
> PHP code.  A lot of our paradigms are already PEAR standards, and
> a lot of the more basic stuff we do (like offer the test.php
> script) were regarded as somewhat brilliant.  
> 
> Back to the topic at hand ... <g>
> 
> > > So I attended Andrei and Frank's "PHP-GTK" presentation at the
> > > O'Reilly Convention last week, and I have to say, it is one really
> > > cool use of PHP.
> > 
> > For those of us who weren't there, could you mention a few of the
> things
> > that you thought were cool; things that you see as advantages over
> just
> > straight PHP as an installer?
> 
> Aside from the obvious benefits of a GUI installer, it would
> allow the administrator to run the installation program as a
> privileged user so that we wouldn't have to play games with
> permissions.
> 
> Their web site is at http://gtk.php.net, for further reference.
>  
> > > Of course, this doesn't necessarily have to be _the_ Horde
> installer,
> > > but it would definitely be neat to have _a_ GUI Horde installer.
> > 
> > I think that's the bottom line for me; even if the GUI installer was
> the
> > one that was "recommended", most mature, getting most of the
> attention
> > etc., as long as it's *possible* for someone to create a different
> kind of
> > installer, I'd be OK with that.
> 
> Right.  We've talked about the different methods of embedding
> "meta-data" in the configuration files so that the different
> settings and values could be read and altered programmatically.
> 
> Once there's some kind of standard there, any number of
> configuration tools could be used to maintain the files.
>  
> -- 
> Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
> http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member
> 
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-chuck

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Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
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