On 02/14/2012 11:46 PM, Pak Ogah wrote:
please take a look at iredmail.org
it support 4 mainstream distro
- rhel/centos/scientific
- debian/ubuntu
- opensuse
- freebsd
There are some things about iredmail that I like, and others that I
dislike (I'll let you guess which are which). I hope that the things I
like will be incorporated into QMT in the future, while leaving the
distasteful things behind.
they can manage this because all the components they use are officially
provided by the distros' repositories.
(that's why I am also agree Eric decision to use dovecot, mailman as
it's provided by distro
and also will using SA/clamav from distro)
what iredmail do, is provide a script that work on those distros,
installing all components, then configured them and finally give the
end users A REALLY NICE admin interface. no hassle maintaining the core
softwares, repositories and infrastructures.
but since we are qmailtoaster group
we use qmail,vpopmail,qmailadmin,daemontools,ucspi,etc which is not
officially supported by most distros
that's why we need to maintain our core softwares, repositories and
infrastructures.
True enough, Pak. Indeed, we hope to leverage upstream packagers more
effectively going forward, in a (somewhat) similar fashion to iredmail.
Unfortunately, we sometimes still need to build our own packages to add
support that is not included upstream (such as including vpopmail with
dovecot).
Choosing to focus on RHEL/CentOS at this time is not a permanent
moratorium on other distros. It's only a case that I think doing so will
allow us to focus more easily on changes that need to be made in order
to get to where (I think) we want to be. (I don't mean to sound like a
politician, but hey, I can't lay out the whole game plan right here).
Thanks to Johannes, we *may* be leveraging the OBS (Open Build Service)
for building our packages, which means that support for other distros
may come along sooner than I'm anticipating. This is not yet a
certainty, but it's looking promising at this point. Hop on over to the
devel list if this interests you.
Keep in mind that providing support for other platforms is not a trivial
matter, even with OBS. What's needed as much as anything are people to
test, use and support it on those platforms once it's built. That is a
much larger commitment of resources than simply building the packages.
I'll conclude this piece by saying that reshaping QMT for a virtualized
landscape (I refrain from using the "c" word) will continue to be a
higher priority than providing multiple platform support.
Thanks to everyone for their comments and support.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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