Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: previous postings to do with installers

[Karsten Hilbert]

> >On the other hand I also very much like the idea of a gnumedlauncher 
> >bundle containing wxpython and adds on because it very clean and 
That is very debatable but I won't go into that today.

> >The only thing that doesn't work in this Gnumed.dmg is this "prepare 
> >database" script, maybe I will include my old horrible terminal script 
> >with it (the one which opens a terminal window asking you to enter 4 
> >yes and 4 passwords) so that you can still configure postgresql  in a 
> >more easy way....
Again, the "yeses" can be avoided at the cost of having to
figure out another way of providing the passwords to Pgsql.py

> I think there will be value in separate versions such "client only" 
Yes !

> That would mean a separate "server installer",
Yes.

> to install onto either 
> the same machine (which people with only one machine will do), or on a 
> separate machine (as will be done in actual practice).
Which difference shouldn't be made. From the installers point
of view a machine with the client installed already should
look no different than one without the client.

> I am not sure 
> whether to install in a separate step onto the same machine will create 
> problems for example if python etc already exist on that machine.
Precisely one of the points against the
dump-everything-onto-one-large-pile strategy of installing.

> term) and I wonder if it is better for each platform to have just the 
> two above, and not have this third one,
IMO yes.

> Maybe all "installers" should contain the same checking code as 
> "updaters" in case any user has previously installed components on 
> their machine(s).
They should.

Karsten
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