LibLime had an Ubuntu-based Koha live CD at the 2008 code4lib conference. You would be surprised how out of date the thing is now. <br><br>Previous to that there was an old Koha virtual machine image available for those that couldn't clear the installation hurdle. I think a VMware-compatible VM would serve most readily as an instantaneous "Now you have Koha" delivery mechanism. The problem is that it is much bigger and relies on somebody to host a multi-GB image. Nobody really wants to do that, so maybe it would help if we had a distributed filesharing mechanism like BitTorrent. And then there is the downside of converting some of the list traffic to questions about VMware/Xen administration and OS/desktop/flavor-of-the-month questions: "Why not my favorite OS?"<br>
<br>Steve's idea of forking the dependencies so they cannot update from CPAN is, in my opinion, a net loss in efficiency and manageability. How would Koha hand down updates and bugfixes to those modules once installed? Do you propose Koha incorporate and git-track the <b>entire</b> perl dependency tree? What about compiled dependencies? <br>
<br>The current work on "monolithization" is to build an appropriate debian package, which should satisfy ubuntu users also. I see that as the most useful and immediate jump to spur new user adoption (besides getting XML parsing to work on win32). <br>
--Joe<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Colin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:colmcd@optusnet.com.au">colmcd@optusnet.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Koha's<br>
<br>
I was wondering. Has anyone made a Koha distro yet? Ie a live/install cd<br>
that you could just put the CD into the drive and have koha work?<br>
<br>
Cpan is koha's biggest downfall and while such a cd would not be easily<br>
upgraded, it would be good for those that struggle with Cpan and koha's<br>
installation<br>
<br>
regards<br>
<br>
Colin McDermott<br></blockquote></div><br>