On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 19:25, Ian Bicking wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 21:01, Terrel Shumway wrote:
> > * A wiz-bang GUI installer & launcher:
> > click, click, click, open browser
>
> I don't know this for a fact, but I imagine making a GUI Windows
> installer is similar to making the equivalent fancy Linux installer
> (which is an rpm/deb) -- and similarly, distutils is probably the key to
> doing it Right.
Distutils does half of the job, and is OK for many purposes. My purpose
is to make a *braindead* installer:
* no python installation necessary
* no admin rights necessary
* no webserver necessary
* easy to setup multiple sites
* easy to clean up when you are done playing
Phase 2 (probably after 1.0) would be a set of management tools for a
real deployment:
* compile and install mod_webkit
* install mod_rewrite rules?
* manage multiple webware "instances"
* start,stop,pause, configure service
* edit configuration
* add/remove/edit contexts/plugins
* load-balancing
* user name/passwords
* backup/restore
* manage log files
* manage error files
* ...
* integration with boa-constructor
* all of those nifty little tricks that you learned the hard way by
spending many sleepless night curled up by the fire with your
Webware Source.
There is room for a lot of tools of varying value that go far beyond
what distutils is designed for.
-- Terrel
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