-----Original Message----- From: robbat2@orbis-terrarum.net
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:29:10AM +0100, Olivier M. wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:39:47PM -0800, robbat2@orbis-terrarum.net wrote:
Maybe it would be good to have a look at the current (already exisiting) PhpMyAdmin rpm's on the CD's of SuSE, redhat, etc. to get an idea.
I have just gone through all of the five CDs of the Red Hat 8.0 distribution. I have not been able to find a phpMyAdmin-RPM there, but nevertheless I know that anaconda (the RH installer) offers phpMyAdmin in the package list. I also searched for phpMyAdmin in Red Hat's RPM database - without any result.
I can only guess that anaconda determines the directory automatically and that's the way to go - imho.
In the Gentoo ebuilds, it's /home/httpd/html/phpMyAdmin/
voila, and SuSE is /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/, debian and RH probaly somewhere else: the question is: do we really want to create 10 different RPM/DEB files on every release? :)
Don't forget the MSI packages for the Windows users like me!
We certainly don't want to have to make them by hand, but if it were automatic for us to create, I'm sure the userbase wouldn't mind...
Installing phpMyAdmin is more than easy, you just have to type that one command line that is mentioned in our documentation. And I can't believe that linux users are afraid of command lines... If you needed to compile the source, I'd agree, but it's just uncompressing!
I've really been thinking that the current release script could be improved (including automatic uploading).
I had some thoughts about the release script. The thing that bothers me most about it is that too much rubbish is included. What I'd like to change is:
1) Use "extract" instead of "checkout" for pulling out the source from CVS. A normal user does not need the CVS directories at all and inside the .php distribution they are just senseless! Someone who needs them is always welcome to use the CVS server.
2) Some files are not necessary for the every-day-usage of phpMyAdmin, only for the development. So I'd like to make the script remove the following files after recieving the source: - .cvsignore - lang/add_message.sh - lang/add_message_file.sh - lang/check_lang.sh - lang/remove_message.sh - lang/sort_lang.sh - scripts/check_lang.php3 - scripts/create-release.sh - scripts/remove_control_m.sh
Regards,
Alexander M. Turek alex@bugfixes.info
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