Ken Irwin wrote:
Hi folks,
I've got a homegrown piece of software that I'll be presenting at a
conference in a few weeks (to track title & call-number request
histories using III's InnReach module). I'm trying to package it up in
such a way that other users will be able to use the software too, and
I've never done this before.
Is there any open-source or otherwise freely-available software to
handle the installation of a LAMP-type product:
- displaying readme type information until everything's set up
- creating databases
- creating data tables (in this case, with a dynamic list of fields
depending on some user input)
- loading up some pre-determined data into database tables
- editing the config file variables
I could make this up myself, but I wonder if someone has genericized
this process. (I'm particularly concerned about how to effectively
pre-load the data tables, not assuming the user has command-line mysql
access.)
Any ideas?
Take a look at the Apache Ant project (jakarta.apache.org/ant). I have
been using it for several years to manage java web applications. It
should do everything that you want. I am also using for managing Drupal
installations with subsites.
