On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Alex Karasulu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I guess each instance can have it's own Windows service right? > > > > I think so. Although, I'm not completely sure. Chris ? > > > > That's cool. Also this might be totally off but is there any way we can > > have some kind of configuration thingy like the ones you see in the system > > configuration menus for ApacheDS or is that way hard to do? Was wondering > > if we can control some things in ApacheDS through there. > > > > Yeah I was thinking to do a little PreferencePane that could look like the > MySQL prefpane -> > http://people.apache.org/~pamarcelot/MySQL_PrefPane.png<http://people.apache.org/%7Epamarcelot/MySQL_PrefPane.png> > That's awesome. > > In this prefpane you could see the status of the server (running or not), > toggle between Start and Stop, and also choose to automatically launch the > server when the machine boots. > Love that this is going to be sweet. > > > > I think we should have an init script for each instance. Perhaps > > /etc/init.d/ads-${instanace-name} might be a good idea WDYT? > > > > Sounds like a good idea. > > /etc/init.d/apacheds-${version}-${instance) or something to that effect. > > WDYT? > > > > Good idea. It's the cleanest solution I think. > Cool. > > > > > Also I'd love to see a Solaris pkg so we can make some Apache folks who > > wanted to use ADS in zones here at the ASF happy. That would be awesome but > > am just greatful to have what we have. > > > > Thanks Pierre, this is so wonderful we finally have installers coming > > again and can do a real release. We were stuck in the longest period ever > > without a release and for some reason with me it was due to knowing our > > installers were not up to par yet. Thanks for picking this up. > > > > Well for now, I only added the Mac OS X installer and corrected a bug > introduced in a refactoring which prevented the build of installers from > working. > All the credits go to Chris who did an amazing job with the Windows > installer and RPM package too. > I didn't touch them at all. > Nice!! > > I think a good documentation on our installer is lacking. It was not easy > at first to figure how they worked and how they were built. > I'm going to document them on the wiki so everyone interested can easily > jump in and improve/fix the installers. > Thanks that's just great. > > We can now be good with the 5 minute download install tests that are > > critical for how effective a project is considered. This is a big exposure > > area. > > > > Exactly, I think this is an important point and that's why I tend to > prefer native installers instead of a unique multi-platform installer. > +1 you have more flexibility and it looks cleaner. > > Users are really used to working with native installers. This is something > they apprehend easily and they feel safe with it. > So I think that with a Windows installer, RPM package, DEB package, PKG > package, Binary installer, Apache DS will really cover a large set of OSes > and people. > > As you say, maybe the remaining one could the Solaris one. > Yeah with the Solaris part I guess we're really done - there's nothing else I can foresee people using, maybe free bsd but they can use the catch all installer maybe. Hey let me know if you want me to setup a Solaris vm at oxylos for testing this stuff out with Solaris Intel. We also have a Sparc machine available too but it's not a vm. Alex
