2009/4/28 Alvaro Lopez Ortega <[email protected]>
> On 28-abr-09, at 19:34, Miguel Angel wrote:
>
>> Chris Darnel said:
>>
>> The functionality could be similar to the extensions in Firefox where
>> you click a link to install.
>>
>> Wow, simple, but very interesting idea.
>> +1 for it!! :)
>>
>
> This sort of functionality has been in the To-Do list for a long time now.
> First time we talked about this idea we named it as 'Cherokee-Admin Wizards
> support'.
>
> If you ask me, I don't think that template system would actually work. In
> my opinion it underestimate the complexity of the process. Setting up
> Drupal, GlassFish, Gallery2 or RedMine is fairly simple for a person, but it
> can be basically be impossible to do with a plain template.
>
> Allow me to explain it. Let's take -for instance- Wordpress. The first
> thing would be to know how the user want it to be installed. Does he want it
> to be installed inside the /blog directory? Would he prefer it to be
> installed in a different virtual server: blog.example.com? The set up can
> differ quite a bit between both scenarios. Besides, we would have to ensure
> that the current configuration
These possibilities could be handled with at least two different kinds of
"wizards", for example:
1) Virtual server wizards (for a whole installation).
2) Directory installation wizards (for packages installed inside
directories).
> already support PHP, otherwise our auto-magic configuration would fail
> miserably. And here we have a new challenge: is PHP configured already?
> There might be a information source but not a "Extension PHP" rule. We'd
> have to figure it first. In case there weren't an interpreter we would have
> to look for one: is it installed in /usr/bin, is it in /opt/php, where the
> heck is it? Aside, is it php or php-cgi?
That's another problem to be addressed, and it's not simple at all.
>
>
> So, my point is.. a template system wouldn't probably scale to handle many
> of the most common scenarios our users face on a regular basis. IMHO, we
> ought to implement something slightly smarter, so it can handle fairly
> complex setups (eventually, we'll have to squeeze all its power).
>
> I'd love to know what you guys think of it. Thoughts? Ideas?
>
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