On 10 Oct 2000 at 15:31, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote about "Re: Installation...":
> The reason for this is that some things are actually written into the
> scripts as they are installed. This frees us from having to put a
> configuration file in a "well known" location. That's not a very good
> reason, however, because it's essentially trumped by the need for
> system-independent packages and adding domains at runtime.
The latter is my main concern, actually.
> BR> I don't know...isn't there any other way to do this?
>
> Yes, there is. We need to allow for an external configuration file and
> move into it nearly everything that gets written into the scripts by
> installbin. (I think what can stay is LOCK_EX, LOCK_NB, LOCK_UN, O_WRONLY,
> O_CREAT, O_EXCL and we would need to include the path to the config file.)
Looks good to me!
Hopefully this will be one of those things that Michael comes back with
and says "Implemented!" ;-)
But, I think, it most definitely needs to be done.
Otherwise we're unneedlessly making installation and usage too hard...
Thanks!
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Brock Rozen brozen@torah.org
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