On 02/09/2009, Joe Atzberger <a...@esilibrary.com> wrote: > I'm not trying to make the decision whether SSL is required for > Evergreen or not. In fact, I explicitly added to the documentation: > > a2enmod ssl # enable mod_ssl
If I recall correctly, that step is already in Makefile.install - and to date, anything that can be automated easily goes into Makefile.install and is not part of the distro-specific wiki directions (http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=server:1.4.0:install). The generic install instructions (http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=generic_installation_information) are probably wildly out-of-date, and like many pages on the wiki they need to either be updated or possibly deleted. I could see the generic install instructions including all of the explicit steps that are coded into Makefile.install simply to surface all of the implicit knowledge that is maintained there ("we need X because of Y", etc), but boy howdy that would be a lot of work. Adding in the additional / dropped requirements for various releases complicates things in the generic install instructions just a bit more. On the other hand, it would significantly help people who want to add support for other distros (RHEL / OpenSUSE) / operating systems (*BSD, OpenSolaris). I guess it's a question of how much effort we want to put in that direction, and calculating the return on investment of that particular effort (versus, say, providing more "how to develop new OpenSRF methods and services" type documentation that would potentially enlarge the size of our development community and welcome new developers to the project). To date, things have been pretty much focused on Debian/Ubuntu with Makefile.install because to this point the primary goal has been to just get people up and running at a basic level. I'm sure the Documentation Interest Group (DIG) has ideas about expanding those goals (thankfully!) and there's probably room for a discussion about what the DIGgers want to do with the wiki. All that (mostly blather) said, welcome to the Evergreen community Joe! It's fabulous to have you on board; I'm sure your energy & attention to detail will be a great boon to the project! -- Dan Scott Laurentian University