On Tuesday 2009 January 13 14:08:27 L. V. Lammert wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Per Jessen wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
I have to say - with mediawiki, moodle and other similar php-only applications, I always just install the tarball. It's just as easy, and I don't see much need for package management, dependencies and all that.
Thanks for the sanity - thought I might have been missing something! Why would anyone want a package for a web application? It lives in it's one directory structure (no /usr, /etc), .. has it's on config environment, .. and only impacts one *already* userland [web] service.
Personally, I'd like to have it packaged so that it worked more like a real server application. Configuration files in /etc, state in /var, programs, scripts, and read-only resources in /usr. Preferably with a dependency on a webapps-common package that contained scripts for rolling out multiple instances (to a variety of httpds) while continuing to share common resources from /usr. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/