Forum OpenACS Development: Response to OACS installation sequence change

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Posted by Torben Brosten on
I confess. I made the post. "Necessity is the mother of invention." If I'm planning on reaching developer level capacity, I need to try and answer my own questions --even if they're wrong. Besides I talk to myself all the time anyway. 8D

Don writes 'Since we plan to lash together a tarball of proper drivers and AOLserver 3.3+ad14 for convenience, the docs should skip the "install a database driver" and use Order B above (after we are positive such a tarball's going to exist). '

I see. So by simplifying to 1 tarball, we increase the complexity of the docs for the same users.. hmm..

What if there is a tarball available for each layer (as needed)? Docs would change less, the tarballs would be less complicated to install (and less redundant), and smaller for individual downloads... For example, what if the drivers need updated but not AOLserver, then we would have 2 sets of tarballs... Any other barriers to change?