"Brion Vibber" <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote in
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On Friday, Oct 31, 2003, at 03:27 US/Pacific, tarquin
wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
On Windows? What if someone wrote an installation
package, which
installed and configured Apache, PHP and MediaWiki on Windows? Click
next a few times and it thinks for a while then opens a browser
window for you. Would that help?
Yes! Yes! Yes!
This seems a popular idea. Does anyone want to claim this task? (I have
no experience using these things on Windows.)
I could probably handle it, and I gather Magnus could as well. I'm not sure
where to put it on my priorities list, though. And I'm also not sure of the
feasibility -- it depends on how hard it is to automate the installation
process of the individual packages. My basic idea is to only allow
installation onto a system with none of the constitutent packages installed.
So the installation process would consist of installing the constituent
packages, then simply overwriting the configuration files with pre-prepared
ones.
For Windows
users confused by WinCVS, I REALLY recommend
http://www.tortoisecvs.org/
It's fantastic!!!!!!
Incidentally, I once tried to try out MacCVS, which is the same thing
as WinCVS but the Mac version. My eyes glazed over and I quickly went
back to the comfort of my carefully memorized handful of command-line
sigils. So I feel your pain. :)
If TortoiseCVS is as handy as the screenshot looks, that looks
*awesome*.
Yeah, it's great. I was disappointed when I installed Linux and attempted to
find something similar on that platform. gcvs is pretty useless compared to
TortoiseCVS.
-- Tim Starling.