On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:20:16PM +0100, Kake L Pugh wrote:
Hello. As it has now become my itch, I've started
working on separating out
installation of the OpenGuides modules from setup of an Open Guide. I'm
basing it on the way that CGI::Wiki::Kwiki works[0].
If I understand correctly the essence of this is
http://search.cpan.org/src/KAKE/CGI-Wiki-Kwiki-0.59/bin/cgi-wiki-kwiki-inst…
To my mind, this is copying too much - the templates and CGI scripts
oughtn't be copied for each guide. The templates and CGI scripts can just
live in a standard place (the Debian packages put them in
/usr/share/openguides/templates and /usr/lib/cgi-bin respectively) and
if needed, the "install directory" for the guide can contain symlinks to
the CGI scripts. Otherwise you still end up having to upgrade each guide
individually (and worse, when the modules change, you have to make sure
that the CGI scripts and templates get upgraded at the same point to
avoid breakage.
This was a large part of the point of the custom template path.
The Debian packages don't do the automatic symlinking bit yet (if the
user wants to set up additional guides they need to do that themselves
based on the instructions in the README.Debian file.
I did write a trivial openguides-setup-db script which is certainly part
of the story for any general purpose guide setup script, but that
assumes an existing config file so probably isn't that useful on its
own.
You can fetch the source for the Debian package either with
'apt-get source openguides' or downloading the patch from
http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/openguides
if it's any use for inspiration.
If you have a better way to do it, and either:
a) your way is less hassle (for me) than my way, or
b) you are willing to do the work your way, and plan to do so within the
next few months,
then please let me know. Otherwise I'll carry on with this. For the
time being, I won't be committing this to OpenGuides svn trunk. I can
commit it in a branch if someone would like to send me absolutely
idiot-proof instructions for doing so.
svn cp
https://urchin.earth.li/svn/openguides/trunk \
https://urchin.earth.li/svn/openguides/branches/<your-branch-name>
svn co
https://urchin.earth.li/svn/openguides/branches/<your-branch-name> \
<branch-working-dir-name>
cd <branch-working-dir-name>
[hack hack hack]
svn commit
Dominic.
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