I think part of the problem with a laconica installer vs. a WordPress or MediaWiki installer is that Laconica requires all these daemons to be started and such. WordPress just requires the creation of a database. Because of this, I actually think that a web-based installer for Laconica isn't feasible because it would require the web user (www-data) to run the daemons.
I think a much better idea would be to start off with a Linux package for Laconica. Someone in Ubuntu could just do something like sudo apt-get install laconica, and have it up and running with all features immediately. This has already been done for other web apps like drupal or phpmyadmin. It would also be able to add the daemons to /etc/init.d and appropriate runlevels which is the #1 area of difficulty for users installing laconica. You could even add in options to have it automatically reconfigure local mail and jabber server installations to work with laconica, adding aliases and such. As long as the software architecture depends on these daemons running to enable all the features, it's really not feasible to have a slick web-based installation. -- Scott Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.apreche.net http://www.frontrowcrew.com
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