Justin Erenkrantz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 12:24:29AM -0800, hiten pandya wrote:
>> 
>> hello all,
>> greetings,
>> 
>> i posted a message a week ago which had a script in it for
>> installing from the CVS repository... but it seems that no
>> one even replied to it.... the shell script is attached
> 
> First, if you send attachments, please don't send them
> gzipped.  Most of us won't bother to gunzip it.  Please read:
> 
> http://dev.apache.org/patches.html
> 
> before submitting any more patches.
> 
> Second, why do we want an installation script?  What is wrong
> with "make install" - is there something broken?  If you could
> give us some rationale for adding this to the repository, but
> a script for "installing from the CVS repository" seems of
> dubious value - please enlighten us as to why we *have* to have
> this.  =)  -- justin

I bothered gunzipping, and frankly, I'm more keen to do a

  # ./buildconf
  # ./configure ...
  # make
  # make install

rather than a

  # ./installer.sh -b
  # ./installer.sh -c
  # ./installer.sh -I

(and given that "installer.sh" actually cats everything to /dev/null)...

    Pier (A very puzzled non-committer :)

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