Indeed! I have been at sites where the S word and F word were chanted in an hour long mantra...of course followed by the sound of an install CD whanging off the wall ... and yes, the poor soul trying to instal their new application has a real dim view of the folk that created it! Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC (official wheedler of the project cattle prod)

Subj:Re: [Koha] ANNOUNCE: Koha perl dependency RPMs for Red Hat 9 Date:6/22/2003 1:25:48 PM US Mountain Standard Time From:<A HREF="mailto:peterha@nothingbutnet.co.nz">peterha@nothingbutnet.co.nz</A> To:<A HREF="mailto:koha@lists.katipo.co.nz">koha@lists.katipo.co.nz</A> Sent from the Internet

On Monday 23 June 2003 01:22 am, COURYHOUSE@aol.com wrote:

...

"it would really help a lot of not-so-IT librarians to just install Koha without them knowing the hard work."

Correct.. In this manner and other things leading to the one click instal, shall any software package gain universal acceptance...

A manager once put me right on this point. Your application might be the best in the world, but if the install isn't easy, or doesn't work right, the user

will never see how good it is.

This is a problem with open source in general - that installation is far harder than with commercial applications. Developers know how to build and deploy, while users are not conversant with the tools - and shouldn't need to be.

Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz

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