Dave Watkins wrote: > Hi Guys > > >> I think a Win32 installer that addresses some of the issue you and >> Micheal have brought up is possible, and I think that a Win32 > installer >> that is maintained could be good boost for ASSP. It appears that many >> Windows Admins out there shy away from it due to the seeming > complexity >> of the install. > > > Upon first connection to the GUI (by the presence of, or lack thereof of > a file) the system could launch a wizard type setup page. At this point > all that would be required is a working Perl environment and ASSP. The > wizard could then detect OS, and if windows auto add roth.net as a > repository and install Win32::Daemon and the ASSP service, if *nix > install Sys::Syslog, as well as the other modules that aren't already > installed which are required. Also creation of the spam/notspam/error > directories. Possibly going to the extent of prompting for optional > packages or giving some default install scenerios and installing the > correct modules (DB modules for failover installations etc).
There are too many operating systems and software repositories to be able to maintain this properly. The spam/notspam/error directories are created on first run already. > If the permission/rights issue can't be resolved (since you'd be stuck > with the IIS user (in windows)) you could at the very least have a > setup.pl that is run from the command line before connecting to the web > interface which could do all this, testing for module presence and known > module versions that can cause issues etc. How would we be stuck with that? ASSP is it's own web server, we don't use IIS. I have a script somewhat like that already. I wrote it to query the modules installed on the server and report back the install stats and version. > To sum up, an installer would be nice, but it wouldn't be cross > platform, and it seems like there are a number of manual steps that > could be removed from the setup process on both platforms with a little > bit of perl :). We are aiming at win32 here with the installer. Most other *nix distros already have ASSP in their respective software repositories. Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
