[dev] Up2Date

[Michael J. Pawlowsky]

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On 14/01/2003 at 6:23 PM Eric Rostetter wrote:

>> As a start how about a local source tree (maybe only config/*.dist
>> and db/driver/*.sql directories) that is updated and then
>> compared to the "in use" version showing the changes with diff
>
>How is that different than just doing a "cvs diff" command on them?


Basically the idea is that anyone could update horde. Including the priest of the guy that's setting up horde for free for his church!  :-)
In the way that RedHat has their RHN. Or Microsoft and Windows Update,  Norton and LiveUpdate etc.

I wouldn't publish updates for every CVS change. However definitely go through it on a regular basis and put some through.

Also you are talking about *nix solutions that do not necessarily come installed on Win2K boxes.

It all depends on how broad of a market you want to reach. Right now my guess would be that Horde is popular with university sys-admins,
php coders, some ISPs etc.

But if you wanted to start reaching a more mainstream market you would need to reduce the complexity of installing and maintaining it.
Personally I don't think it was all that hard to install. But I'm thinking of showing this to one of my customers as a corporate solution.
It's a biotech firm with about 200 employees. I know for a fact that their IT team could not handle it. Don;t even try to get them to compile anything!
I agree that a cvs update is not complex... And that is how I also update my machine...
However believe it or not Horde would be too intimidating for the average IT dept.

Why do you think Linux became popular. Price for one perhaps. But once the installs became CLICK next...  it made a big difference.
I remember 6-7 years ago having to go through the makefiles to link in lib support for your NIC card!
It made the bar to install Linux above the capabilities of many IT depts. This is no longer the case.

Mike


P.S. Just one man's opinion!


Cheers,
Mike
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