On 5/3/05, Jeffrey Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is not easy. If there's an Eclipse update manager site for Apache > software, then when the user finds out s/he needs Tomcat and Axis, all s/he > needs to do now is launch the Eclipse update manager (URL to the Apache > update site will be preloaded), select Tomcat and Axis and click Finish. The > Eclipse update manager will download, install and configure Tomcat and Axis > automatically. This is much better than asking the user to download and > configure things manually. Also, this Eclipse update manager site is useful > when new versions of a Apache software is available. For example:
What do you mean by "configure" I ask as I am just back from a workshop on Configuration Management tools at Edinburgh University, and want to see how far on the path towards autonomic-system-management you are aiming. Downloading stuff is easy. Getting it to work is a different problem. -steve
