[dev] Up2Date

[Michael Pawlowsky]

I would try and rely on the least amount of external
apps as necessary. There already is a pretty decent
bar to get over to get horde installed I find. I had
to recomile PHP several times to get all the necessary
option to run horde. If you are a REAL sys admin or
developer no problem. But I have a feeling more than
one person must have given up trying to install horde.
I don't know how many of you visit local commercial IT
groups, but let me tell you, the level of knowledge in
many IT departments would make it possible for them to
install horde on their own. If they have PHP it is
usually installed from some RPM.

Writing a PHP diff, merge app would be pretty simple.
Why rely on them having one that would function the
way you think it will when it might not. Also I know
my WIN2K boxes don't come with diff installed.

The other thing which would be nice about this is that
it would have a certain level of error reporting. In
the sense that it can check for dependencies. So if
you have PHP 4.12 or something and that package/update
requires 4.3 you simply don't allow the update to
function. Or even group files together, like if you
want to install this patch for mnemo must first
install this one in horde etc.

Mike.