[dev] Up2Date

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

This all sounds pretty neat, and I'd encourage folks to explore it. I can't
devote resources to it personally right now, but if there are patches that
need to be applied or things that need to get done on horde.org, I'll try
and look at them.

Quoting Michael Pawlowsky <mjpawlowsky at yahoo.com>:

> 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.



-chuck

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