Well, I haven't thought about the bandwidth thing yet. I'll probably set it up as a SourceForge project if I do it. That way they can handle the bandwidth. :-) (Though SVN is nicer than CVS...)
Anyway, asking the Plone guys is not a bad idea. I have also seen a few LAMP stacks packaged up, but never really thought about their bandwidth. Thought I sure I can figure something out. Thanks for the "retort"! :-) You have given me some things to think about. Krys Ronald Jaramillo wrote: > > Please ,allow me to retort =) > I'm willing to bet that the main problem with such an initiative will > be bandwidth. > > There where some Germans folks (can't remember the url) which > distributed a LAMP stack. > MySQL, PHP (+ extensions ) and Apache configured to run on port 8080 > with a start, stop bat file > Pretty quickly they where having capacity problems, not from seasoned > PHP developers, > but developers who just wanted to try LAMP out. How difficult was to > set things up on your own? > Well each of the tree projects had already win32 installers available. > > <gross-generalisation>There are a lot of win32 developers who don't > even consider trying new things out > unless there is a single click installer</gross-generalisation> > > But no need to guess, you can start by asking the Plone people (or ROR, > or any other project with single clicks installers), > how do the stats look like, before you embark on this. > > Ronald. > > On Nov 14, 2005, at 11:50 AM, Lee McFadden wrote: > >> >> I think that there might be interest in this as a way of creating a >> production environment for an application with minimal fuss and >> helping to distribute a project on win32 environments. However, for >> development types I'm not sure that it will get used too much IMHO. >> Anyone developing in TG should know roughly what they're doing when >> downloading eggs etc. The setup is already pretty easy (assuming >> there are no snags) with easy_install. >> >> My opinion is that it will be underused and, unless you're going to be >> using it a lot yourself, would probably not be worth all the effort. >> >> My $0.02 >> >> On 14/11/05, Krys Wilken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> I've been mulling over the idea of an all-in-one >>> Python+TG+SQLlite+PostgresSQL+Apache windows installer (a la >>> Plone). It >>> could contain a self-contained python with all the necessary >>> site-packages to run TG and a directory structure for TG-based apps. >>> >>> At my work, our net connection is heavily >>> firewalled/proxied/content-filtered and auto-downloading anything just >>> does not work. I have to get TG in what amounts to basically a >>> connectionless system. >>> >>> I am thinking that this kind of all-in-one setup.exe might be useful. >>> >>> Before I go running off to do this (and providing I can get some >>> time to >>> do it), I'd be interested in hearing people's opinions. >>> >>> (Of course, if I can convince my bosses to let me set up a linux box, >>> then I may lose my interest in this idea, but I think it is still >>> worthy >>> of discussion.) >>> >>> Opinions? Is there even interest in this? >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Krys >>> >>> Kevin Dangoor wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Ced, >>>> >>>> There's a ticket open to create such a beast, but it doesn't exist >>>> right now. My recommendation would be to do an svn checkout of >>>> TurboGears. via the externals, you'll also pick up CherryPy, MochiKit, >>>> SQLObject and Kid which all have docs included in the checkouts. >>>> >>>> Kevin >>>> >>>> On 11/13/05, Cedric Briner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I'm going to have a lot of free time and I was thinking to dig >>>>> turbogears during this time. But unfortunately I won't have any >>>>> internet connexion. So do you have a tarball of all the documentation >>>>> of turbogears including (sqlobject, cherrypy, moshikito...). So that >>>>> in a one download I have everything to start ! >>>>> >>>>> Ced. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Kevin Dangoor >>>> Author of the Zesty News RSS newsreader >>>> >>>> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> company: http://www.BlazingThings.com >>>> blog: http://www.BlueSkyOnMars.com >>>> >>> > > ________________________________ > Ronald Jaramillo > mail: ronald AT checkandshare DOT com > blog: http://www.checkandshare.com/blog > > > >
