Yon,
I see, that makes sense. I'm wondering where the happy middle-ground is. Playing with a large setup like OpenACS may indeed seem daunting to a user starting out and doing OpenACS bottom-up (starting with Linux and installing everything). But playing with individual pieces may not be all that exciting. The really exciting part for people who try out AOLserver, for example, is when they realize they can do some powerful stuff in 10 lines of code....
I guess that, to catch a new user's attention, it's nice to have an entire system easily installable as an RPM (or other package), allowing people to try out the full power of the system in a few lines of code...
But I think we're in agreement overall!
