On 2009/01/7, at 12:45 PM, Rick Welykochy wrote:
Steven Owley wrote:
I think that I am proposing just that--the koha installation should be self-contained, and everything it needs to be run (if not built) within a given host OS should be in the distribution, including a custom-built perl, MySQL and Apache, statically-linked. Development should take place within those constraints, too.
This is the most stable way to distrbute Koha. But I don't think it should be the only way.
For one, we cannot come up with a so-called "static and dependable" install for every possible OS. Rather, I agree we should come up with one for, say, the top 10, i.e. most popular Linuxes, a Mac OS X version for Leopard and one for Windows XP (I do not want to contemplate Vista).
lets keep it simple - and stay focused on the koha debian package first then we can start designing the amazon-compile-cloud...