:: - Install Apache and mod_perl, or use an existing installation. :: :: - Install all the needed modules, template files, images, etc.
[cut] Dave, I too try to automate installations as much as possible. Within Perl, I've found it possible to dispense with a separate configuration file for almost any application, even those with an RDBMS back-end. Under *nix it's really easy to automate things, under Win32 it's a little more difficult (file permissions are a bastard to manipulate). Perl can analyse its own environment very accurately, and once it has this "awareness" it's really easy to achieve automation. Anyone can do this, but most of us are too lazy for such niceties, which is too our detriment I think. However, all of my work in this direction requires that Perl and any required modules/libraries are already installed - I have never attempted to do an "all-in-one" install, although I do see this as being relatively easy to achieve. I would love to contribute to any efforts towards an out-of-the-box installer. Jonathan M. Hollin - WYPUG Co-ordinator West Yorkshire Perl User Group http://wypug.pm.org/
