Re: [gNewSense-users] Webapps infrastructure

[Karl Goetz]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:54:12 -0400
Jean Schurger <address@hidden> wrote:

> On ven, 2009-04-24 at 11:23 +0930, Karl Goetz wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:38:23 +0200
> > Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> writes:
> > > 
> > > >>> about redmine: (http://www.redmine.org/)
> > > >
> > > > The feature list gives a very mature impression, but I've never
> > > > heard of it.
> > 
> > Ditto.
> > 
> > > 
> > > I'm using it (http://redmine.josefsson.org/) lightly for GnuTLS,
> > > but anything remotely connected to Ruby or Rails is a nightmare to
> > > maintain. I tried to install things cleanly on debian lenny:
> > > 
> > > http://blog.josefsson.org/2008/10/17/redmine-on-debian-lenny-using-lighttpd/
> > 
> > This is fairly consistant with what I've heard about RoR.
> > 
> 
> 
> Trac and redmine are both not 'easily' installable.
> 
> - Both requires a 'special' apache configuation (mod_python for trac,
> passenger for redmine) (or using mod_proxy)
> 
> - Both install documentation tell about installing packages without
> the distribution tool, but with the 'language' tool (easy_install for
> python, and gem for ruby). 

trac is, however, packaged in Debian, which eases the burden
considerably.
kk

> 
> - Trac install is more documented because trac is more used (that may
> be change since redmine 0.8 and newer versions)
> 
> - I think that redmine upgrades is VERY simple. It handles db model
> migration, and 'just' works. Plugins who do changes to the model works
> very well too.
> 
> - Both can use mysql/postgres/whateversql 
> 
> 


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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian user / gNewSense contributor
http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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