Re: [Gnumed-devel] database installer

[Ian Haywood]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:44:46 +0200 (MEST)
"Hilmar Berger" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I would suggest a clean separation of Setup and the rest of gnumed.
> It should work like this (resembling other setup procedures):
> - in general, new users are advised to run Setup when trying to run gnumed
> the first time
> - Setup checks if gnumed-DB is present and accessible (postgres
> configuration check) and gives some hints on how to configure postgres
> - if no gnumed database is present or it is empty and the user wants a local
> backend, fire up the database installer
> - when backend install succeeded ask the user if gnumed should be started
> right now 
OK, I'll keep the setup scripts separate.

> IMO wizard-like inclusion of database installation is no clean approach.
> There will be some cases where it works, and some where it just makes things
> more complicated than should be. 
Obviously this is only going to help people who want a standard installation.

Ian

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