On Mar 13, 2004, at 16:15, Erik Moeller wrote:

Because Brion asked for feedback I've taken some time to test the new inplace installer. It works great, and thanks for the free link to OpenFacts! ;-)

Two things I noticed:

• In Mozilla, the dropdown box with the languages seems to really screw

things up. When I scroll through it, the fonts suddenly change, and afterwards the form elements become unusable. Could be my setup, but I'd still recommend using just the Latin transliterations here.

That's odd... Mozilla version and OS?

• There seems to be no option to create an SQL database account,

instead the standard account seems to be used for that purpose. That's probably not the most secure setup. Is there a particular reason for this?

Actually, I'd prefer that Asksql be _completely_ disabled by default. People with limited access to a shared server may also not be able to create a mysql user with limited privileges...

On a more general note, as we move developer status away from being an actual developer, we should probably rename the rights flag. I suggest something like "siteadmin", which is intuitive and instantly recognizable from other applications. The first user the script would create would always be a site-admin, and that user would be able to assign arbitrary rights to other users.

Sounds nice.

I think we should deprecate the command line scripts ASAP, but preferably after my Linux Magazine article which explicitly refers to them comes out ;-) (early April, I think - the German version is already out).

Soon... we have to redo the maintenance scripts at some point to be friendly to that install environment, as well.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)