[Wikitech-l] Laptop setup guide for future Hackathons

2012-07-26 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hello, dear wikitech-ians, For the Hackathon, I (with some help!) prepared a laptop setup guide for getting MediaWiki installed, from start to finish, on Windows, Mac, and Linux. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathon/Laptop_setup It is somewhat unique in the world of MediaWiki install

Re: [Wikitech-l] Laptop setup guide for future Hackathons

2012-07-26 Thread Chad
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Asheesh Laroia li...@asheesh.org wrote: Next steps -- Here's my question for y'all: where do docs like this fit into the mediawiki.org install guides? Is there a person I should contact who maintains the main install guide, or should I just be some

Re: [Wikitech-l] Laptop setup guide for future Hackathons

2012-07-26 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:41:05 -0700, Asheesh Laroia li...@asheesh.org wrote: Hello, dear wikitech-ians, For the Hackathon, I (with some help!) prepared a laptop setup guide for getting MediaWiki installed, from start to finish, on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Laptop setup guide for future Hackathons

2012-07-26 Thread Platonides
Nice. Some comments: - It doesn't check if you already have php 5.4 installed - It doesn't believe you may not want to install it: Install PHP in ~/.mediawiki/php [y/N]: N Downloading PHP 5.4- using wget --2012-07-27 03:06:23-- http://snaps.php.net/php5.4-latest.tar.gz (...) - The 'latest'

Re: [Wikitech-l] Laptop setup guide for future Hackathons

2012-07-26 Thread Daniel Friesen
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:15:03 -0700, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Nice. Some comments: - It doesn't check if you already have php 5.4 installed - It doesn't believe you may not want to install it: 5.4 was alpha at time of writing. Absolutely no-one would have it, and I didn't