[imp] Tarball with all sources in it

[Travis Zadikem]

You bring up a good point on this.  I would say if
something like this were to happen it should have just
what you need to make the product work.  Having at
least the sources you could proceed from that and
compile for speed, optimization, etc.  
--- Rick Romero <Rick@valeoinc.com> wrote:
> On 28 Aug 2001 at 13:49, Travis Zadikem wrote:
> 
> > A few friends of mine have been looking at
> IMP/HORDE
> > for a while, but keep getting shyed away because
> of
> > all the downloads that they have toget first
> (i.e.,
> > PHP4, APACHE, openssl (if they want ssl), imp,
> horde,
> > etc).  Why doesn't someone create a tarball with
> all
> > the sources in it.  
> You can't really.  There would be a version for each
> apache module, 
> for each apache verison, plus each PHP version, (but
> do you want 
> everything compiled into php, compiled into apache,
> or do you want 
> all modules?)  What platform are you going to run
> on? RH 6.x, BSD, 
> Sun,  libc6 or glibc2?
> 
> I assume you want it optimized.  Compiled for 386,
> 586, 686? SMP?
> 
> I obviously don't speak for the programmers and
> maintainers of the 
> Horde Project, but if you can't mumble through the
> INSTALL 
> documentation, and manage to get a Web Server
> running with PHP 
> support, you probably shouldn't be attempting it.
> 
> Keep in mind, each module you require (i.e. 
> imap,mysql,php,apache), pretty much all come in RPM
> form (if 
> you're running RedHat - they'll be on the CD.), and
> BSD has the 
> ports collection, so it's really not too difficult
> to get everything up and 
> running if you run the release version.  just verify
> test.php works, 
> and fix what it says is broken.  It doesn't have to
> work 100% on your 
> first attempt.
> 
> Once you have that up, graduate to the CVS version. 
> (Though I 
> think the CVS version is much more straight forward
> to install, it's 
> not considered production code)
> 
> That way a person can just
> > download the tarball, unzip it and then go into
> each
> > directory and run the make for each particular
> > program.  This would save a lot of time in the
> long run.
> 
> That's really not too much different from
> downloading the RPM for 
> each program.  The two places you need to pay
> attention, are 
> making sure PHP includes the sources it needs (imap,
> mysql), and 
> apache includes the sources it needs (php).  
> 
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> Sincerely,
> Rick Romero
> 
> IT Manager
> Valeo, Inc.
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