On 1/12/2005, "(Christopher Schmidt)" crschmidt@crschmidt.net wrote:
- Ardurous Installation I personally find setting up a guide to be a non-trivial task. I'm getting used to it now - with Milton Keynes, it only took about 20 minutes total to get everything up and running - but the biggest reason for that is that the OG packages are already installed for Boston.
To be honest, I'm not sure whether spending time on this is such a good idea. The Debian packages make it absolutely trivial to install. Yes, that excludes people who don't have root, but in this era of UML, is that really such an issue?
Maybe we could work with one of the UML providers to supply an Openguide-ready UML image?
I suppose this might get relatively ridiculous: You can require that easy to install or commonly installed packages are already taken care of, but documenting these dependancies could go a long way towards at least letting people know if they could install OG.
That could probably be scripted so you run a script and it tells you what you need to install.
If there is a way to make it such that OG can be installed by anyone with FTP and MySQL access
Surely if you want to make it as easy as possible, SQLite would be a better option?
It would be interesting to see, for example, the Open Guide to Sydney - perhaps even hosting it with a current OGDev member as admin, and then trying to pimp it to sydney locals, thus skipping the setup step.
When I move back to Sydney next year, I will start a Sydney OG. That will be later in the year though.
* Google Maps support
Abso-farkin-lutely!
PS: Have a look at this amazing gazetteer stuff the mysociety.org guys are working on: http://www.mysociety.org/?p=83 http://www.mysociety.org/?p=96