Re: plog2013 installer report

Great work, all. And, thanks, Sven, for the writeup!


On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 3:33 AM, sven <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hey there,
>
> Here is the write down of the installer group from plog2013, if i forgot
> something please add.
>
> *Dependencies*:
>
> We  started to work on a script to solve dependencies problems during the
> installation process, the goal is to make this script as user friendly as
> possible.
>
> - tries to detect your OS
> - will install missing dependencies for you
>
> So far we have a working proof of concept for ubuntu and for debian, it is
> almost done for centOS, the only thing missing here, is a nice way to solve
> the libxml thing.
> The script is nothing doing on its own, it is always asking for
> permissions and if you deny it will stop/do nothing.
> I also have now a proof of concept where I integrated the script into the
> UI-installer, so far only as an option like:
>
> ./install.sh --slove-dependencies
>
> My idea is to make this the default option when you run the installer
> without any arguments.
>
> After not looking at the code for three days, I thing I will change it a
> bit:
> - use only sudo or root where it is really needed [atm you have to run the
> whole script with sudo/root]
> - split the script in OS specific ones and place them into helper_scripts
> [easier to read and maintain] and source them.
>
> *OSX Installer:*
> There are some little issues, like the progress bar with the wrong time
> message [it is always one minute], and the location of the error log which
> we would like to fix.
> We asked Wyn of the possibility to have a VM with OSX somewhere
> Further was there a discussion about splitting the OSX installer from the
> UI-installer, more about that in a few moments.
>
> *UI Installer: *
> One topic during all the discussions was the possibility about splitting
> the installer, so that the OSX installer is not based on the UI-installer,
> the idea was more like move towards an UI-buildout.
> Reason:
> The last couple of years there were lots of changes in OSX and also in
> Linux, with the result that we [Steve] had to tweak the UI-installer script
> more and more to make it work on all different Linux, BSD and OSX versions.
> If we split the installer into Linux/BSD and OSX it would me easier to
> maintain and focus more on OS specific issues.
> One idea was to move more into the direction of an UI-buildout.
>
> *WIndows Installer:*
> Giacomo started to work on a new installer for windows, see his mail to
> this list :)
>
> *Installer testing and release management:
> *see: http://piratepad.net/xmruxyEzDY*
>
> *I started to work on a little testing application which is based on
> openvz to do auto/robot testing of the installer for debian, ubuntu and
> centos so far, it would be nice to have something like that integrated in
> jenkins
>
> Like i said, if I forgot something please add :)
> I am looking forward to hear you opinions, comments and ideas  !
>
> cheers
>
> Sven
> *
> *
>
>
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