[Koha] Creating an INSTALL.opensuse file and Koha 3 and openSUSE versions

[Ricardo Dias Marques]

Hi,

Following up the request from Joshua Ferraro asking me to create an
INSTALL.opensuse file  -
http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2008-May/013916.html - here I am
writing some questions regarding WHAT versions of Koha 3 and openSUSE
I should target.

I'm asking this because:

1 - openSUSE 11.0 is "just around the corner": the RC1 ("Release
Candidate 1") is scheduled for the 29th of the current month (May
2008). The final version is scheduled for the 19th June -
http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap/11.0

I already tried to install Koha 3 Beta 2 in the current openSUSE
available Beta (openSUSE 11 Beta 3). Besides an annoying bug in
package selection during openSUSE installation ( already acknowledged
and corrected for RC1: "Package selector doesn't show any pattern" -
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390139 ), the installation
of Koha wasn't harder than it usually is.

Actually, Koha installation was EASIER on openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3: at
least, CPAN installation was easier than it was in openSUSE 10.3,
because CPAN "setup wizard" now asks if it can assume what it thinks
to be reasonable defaults. If you say "yes", CPAN just sets up itself.
Pretty neat!  :)

So, my first question is: Should I create documentation for openSUSE
10.3 or for openSUSE 11 (Beta 3 / RC 1 / Final)?

I would like very much to get feedback on that. However, I do think
that the answer to that question depends partially on the answer to
another question:


2 - Is a Beta 3 / Release Candidate of Koha 3 expected to be available soon?

If a "Beta 3" of Koha is also "just around the corner", then it may
make sense to create setup instructions based on openSUSE 10.3. If
we're still moderately far from a Beta 3 / Release Candidate of Koha
3, it seems to me that basing the instructions on openSUSE 11 would be
a "better bet".

Another "issue" would be that it probably makes sense to integrate
Koha dependencies that were created after Koha 3 Beta 2 (like the
HTML::Scrubber Perl Module and ImageMagick) in this document.


A final (?) question: based on feedback from Jesse (pianohacker at
gmail.com) and Joshua Ferraro, I'm thinking of "putting" up an initial
version of this document with instructions to install Koha in openSUSE
in the Koha Developer's Wiki - http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php - letting
people review and improve on it (thanks to Brendan Gallagher for
already having  volunteered to help!), and then putting the "final"
version in the git tree as the INSTALL.opensuse text file.


Comments and questions about all this... please?  :)

Best wishes,
Ricardo Dias Marques
lists AT ricmarques DOT net