> Feb 12 2006 12:44pm from dothebart @uncnsrd >gldnsup, as there is a setup program written in c, which featues >are you missing in it?
There's nothing wrong with the setup program written in C. In fact, the Python-based installer calls it directly for bith citadel and webcit. What I ported was the newinstall.sh script, which is used for the easyinstall site, and which is written using bash. I needed an easy way to build and install the full stack of citadel, webcit, and their dependencies from whatever sources I chose -- namely, from local tarballs and local svn checkouts. I could not find an easy way to do this using the newinstall.sh script. I could not mimick the newinstall.sh script correctly by hand for whatever reasons, so I figured I could wrap my head around the process better by rewriting the installer in a language I was intimately familiar with. My goal was met: I can install citadel, webcit, and its dependencies from local sources using simple, GNU getopt-style command line options.
