Pardis wrote:
> This is becoming increasingly irritating. I need to assess the
> usefulness of this program for the company I work in and if the
> installation process is this hard to use, I wonder how hard it is to
> use the application itself.

Yes, TRAC is a bit (or more) of a pain to install for Windows. Just like 
it's easier to set up a Windows box to watch a video or something than 
it is on Linux, it's easier to install integrated open source packages 
on Linux than it is on Windows. There are two reasons for this:

1) Windows simply does not provide the tools to make this kind of thing 
easy: package managers, good built-in scripting tools, and a standard 
system compiler.

2) Many (most) open source projects like TRAC, Apache and Subversion are 
developed on and used on *nix systems far more than Windows, so the 
install procedures and docs simply are not as polished.

The best tool for the job, I say, and Windows may be the best tool for 
office workers and maybe home desktops, but it's really not the best 
system for an application server like TRAC.


That being said, TRAC is built on tools that are all well supported 
across platforms, so once you have it up and running, you should be all 
set, and it is a pretty easy to use and administer system.

-Chris





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