On 4 Feb 2002, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > And if the Slashcode were as easy to install and customise as > phpnuke...
For OSCON (and hopefully YAPC too), I've submitted a talk on using Module::Build (an ExtUtils::MakeMaker replacement) for modules and using it to build an application installer. Its not _that_ hard, and using Module::Build makes it a lot easier. When Matt Sergeant and I were working on (formerly) O'Reilly's WebBoard for Unix, we built an interactive command-line installer that could do the following: - Install Apache and mod_perl, or use an existing installation. - Install all the needed modules, template files, images, etc. - Set up a new database in your RDBMS of choice (MySQL, Postgres, Sybase, or Oracle) though the Sybase and Oracle choices weren't 100% automated (they are just too complex). Nowadays, I'd use Alzabo, which can also intelligently handle upgrading old versions of a schema (its not quite 100% perfect but its pretty good). - Insert various default values into your DB, if they weren't already there. At this point, you simply (re-)started your Apache w/mod_perl and you were ready to go. You had an admin account you logged in with and could start creating boards and such. It was a lot of work but its not _that_ hard. Perl definitely needs more "out of tarball/box/whatever" install-able apps and I'd like to help people get there. Alzabo is pretty close, though it still requires you to hand-modify your httpd.conf. I'm not sure how on-topic this is anymore, though I don't think creating a separate list would exactly help at this point. -dave /*================== www.urth.org we await the New Sun ==================*/
