On 27/05/2011 21:43, David F. Skoll wrote: > On Fri, 27 May 2011 13:07:06 -0700 > Chris Travers<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Currently there are two approaches to installing databases in Perl. >> The first (initiate.pl) has officially been moved to add-ons and is a >> web-based interface for this process. I have not personally used it, >> although I have recently committed a lot of patches against it. > I'm not sure I like a web-based interface. This makes automated > installations and testing much harder.
Wouldn't Test::WWW::Mechanize make this pretty straight forward? >> The second approach is the use of makefile targets installdb and >> installdb_interactive. > I don't like that approach either. I prefer an approach like this: > > 1) make > > 2) make install > > 3) ledgersmb-init-database > > That is, have a dedicated command-line script that initializes the database. > It can be interactive, but should also take command-line options for a > fully-automated setup of the database. The ledgersmb-init-database > script should do sanity checks to see if there's already a database, etc. > If it does find a database, it can offer to do a schema upgrade (or > do it automatically if so told by a command-line option.) > > This has the nice side-effect of making the upgrade procedure > absolutely identical to the initial-installation procedure: make; > make-install; ledgersmb-init-database. I guess it depends on what you are used to. Some users will not be used to installing and making packages on the command line, so for them a web interface would likely be more intuitive. Lyle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
