On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Andrew Ho wrote: > One last thing that is hard is where is your DocumentRoot? This is a huge > problem for web applications being installable "out of the box." Perl > can't necessarily figure that out by itself, either.
You take a guess and then ask the user to confirm. And you can't guess you just ask. There's nothing wrong with an interactive installer. What kills mod_perl apps is they simply have a README or INSTALL that says "Copy all the template files to a directory called 'app-root' under your document root." > I guess my point is that installation is hard. Rather than trying to make > it work for everybody out of the box, you should make it work for the > typical case out of the box, and then provide hooks for installing it in > custom places. I think the best installer is an interactive installer that tries really hard to provide good defaults. -dave /*================== www.urth.org we await the New Sun ==================*/
