Paul Gear <paul@gear.dyndns.org> wrote:
Debian has all but one or two of the Perl modules available in the main distribution. It would be nice if those and Koha itself were available from apt-getable sources.
To do this, we need to know which versions of the modules work with Koha (URLs preferred, as IIRC some are not on CPAN), get the modules into debian (I will sponsor if needed - IAADD) and then get Koha packaged and into debian. - Who has a working Koha rel_2_6 or rel_3_0 and will list the module versions? - Who will help make the debs? Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall@gmail.com>
This would at least semi-automate the most painful part of koha setup. Any opinions on this? Any reasons it would be unfeasable, or at least undesireable?
It wouldn't be packaged or play nice with the package systems, which already solve a lot of the problems. Including the source of modules will leave us making something more like a distribution than an application and the release management is even more complicated. I'm convinced that the best approach for koha installation is to make koha look a lot more like the typical perl modules+scripts packages that you find on CPAN, probably with a collection of data ready to load from the web interface the first time that it is run. The first steps are above. After that, it's some ExtUtils::MakeMaker and some new system parameters pages for loading the sample data.