On 10/28/14 12:37, Michal Kubecek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 09:08:01AM +0100, Paul Reeves wrote: >> It also struck me that support for multiple installs in the installer >> may just never be possible. There is a lot of work involved at >> different levels. And it is even worse on linux.
I'm not sure how hard to implement is windows solution but I do not see too big problems with linux. Specially when linux world will be ready to keep the one and only one way to start server - systemd. >> There, we are >> planning to move towards distro-specific packages and afaict, multiple >> installs are just not possible at the moment. Both mentioned "facts" are new for me. Why should _we_ move towards distro-specific packages? It's a common approach in linux world that software authors provide open sources with typical './configure && make && make install' installation sequence. Distro-specific packages are created/maintained by distro. The fact that we provide binary packages is an exception and remains from the times when firebird build from sources was rather complicated (like need in running server with the same version). Next, why do you say that multiple installs are not possible? We are missing shell script automating procedure, but it does not mean that manual multiinstancing is not possible. Installing multiple instances of same version is well described for 2.5, but pre-3 installing multiple instances of different versions required building from source (though once more - it's normal requirement for linux). Starting with FB3 even this step is not absolutely required - FB3 binary packages may run in any directory, not necessary set in --prefix switch. The main reason why we still do not have script to setup multiple instances automatically is need to rebuild package for pre-3 versions and not too big need in it. But as for me I would better like to wait for systemd-only install where writing such script appears pretty easy to do. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
