[Mediawiki-l] Re: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list

Sheldon Rampton sheldon.rampton at verizon.net
Sun Feb 29 05:36:00 UTC 2004


Brion Vibber wrote:

>The install script currently is a little fascistic. ;) It assumes you
>have total control over your system:
>* shell access
>* command-line PHP interpreter
>* root access to the MySQL server
>* will be installing into a fresh database to be created, which will
>have nothing else in it

I had everything on the list EXCEPT root access to the MySQL server, 
which as my revision demonstrated, really isn't necessary for the 
install script to work. Wouldn't it be a good idea to make the 
install script less fascistic?

--Sheldon



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