Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Debian packages and Bruce Hohl Install

2006-12-13 Thread Charley Tiggs
I'm with Bruce here! Charley Bruce Hohl wrote: > A practical word from a user: > > I (a user) don't generally care if it takes an hour to > install an accounting package that I will later spend > untold hours with. I do care if I can not even > install it at all for lack of instructions. And,

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Debian packages and Bruce Hohl Install

2006-12-13 Thread Bruce Hohl
A practical word from a user: I (a user) don't generally care if it takes an hour to install an accounting package that I will later spend untold hours with. I do care if I can not even install it at all for lack of instructions. And, I also care deeply about the functionality provided. So just

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Debian packages and Bruce Hohl Install

2006-12-13 Thread Chris Travers
Mads, Agreed on the general ideas. The only issue at the moment is that I think it would require a lot of rewriting of a lot of code (introducing more errors and delays when we are looking at re-engineering anyway). I think that the way to go about this is to come up with an idea of where we wan

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Debian packages and Bruce Hohl Install

2006-12-13 Thread Mads Kiilerich
Chris Travers wrote, On 12/13/2006 10:51 PM: > I favor the idea of a post-install configure script. Obviously we > don't want it in the web directory :-) > Now you mention it: Couldn't/shouldn't all CGI entry points be moved to a cgi-bin folder and apache be configured to execute cgi in that

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Debian packages and Bruce Hohl Install

2006-12-13 Thread Hugh Esco
ningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Debian packages and Bruce Hohl Install To: ledger-smb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:15:10AM -0800, Chris Travers wrote: > in the RPM's the fear is that if these are ever included in a > repository that m

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Debian packages and Bruce Hohl Install

2006-12-13 Thread John Hasler
Chris Travers writes: > in the RPM's the fear is that if these are ever included in a repository > that might be used during installation, we can;t guarantee that > PostgreSQL is running at the time of installation. In a Debian package we should then fall back to an alternative such as a high-prio

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Debian packages and Bruce Hohl Install

2006-12-13 Thread Chris Travers
Hugh; I favor the idea of a post-install configure script. Obviously we don't want it in the web directory :-) Best wishes, Chris Travers - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Debian packages and Bruce Hohl Install

2006-12-13 Thread Seneca Cunningham
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:15:10AM -0800, Chris Travers wrote: > in the RPM's the fear is that if these are ever included in a > repository that might be used during installation, we can;t guarantee > that PostgreSQL is running at the time of installation. I suppose > that we could try to start Po

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Debian packages and Bruce Hohl Install

2006-12-13 Thread Chris Travers
Hi John and others; Two comments relating to how things might get more interesting if included in the initial OS install: in the RPM's the fear is that if these are ever included in a repository that might be used during installation, we can;t guarantee that PostgreSQL is running at the time of i

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Debian packages and Bruce Hohl Install

2006-12-13 Thread John Hasler
Chris Travers wrote: > Currently the thinking is that we don't want to set the system up with > default passwords which would allow anyone a window into accessing the > applicaiton remotely. Making it "just work" on installation is > unfortunately at odds with that idea. On Linux that problem is

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Debian packages and Bruce Hohl Install

2006-12-13 Thread Michael Schultheiss
Chris Travers wrote: > Hi David; > > Currently the thinking is that we don't want to set the system up with > default passwords which would allow anyone a window into accessing the > applicaiton remotely. Making it "just work" on installation is > unfortunately at odds with that idea. > > I thin

Re: [Ledger-smb-devel] Debian packages and Bruce Hohl Install

2006-12-12 Thread Chris Travers
Hi David; Currently the thinking is that we don't want to set the system up with default passwords which would allow anyone a window into accessing the applicaiton remotely. Making it "just work" on installation is unfortunately at odds with that idea. I think we might be able to do something li

[Ledger-smb-devel] Debian packages and Bruce Hohl Install

2006-12-12 Thread David Tangye
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 09:05 -0500, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 08:55:04AM -0500, Michael Schultheiss wrote: > > Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > > Hi, I'm the LedgerSMB developer who made the packages. The current > > > packaging is currently a bit on the crude side ... On Thu,