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Re: no packages == no go
by Tom on Saturday 30/Apr/2005, @01:44

What are you talking about?

If you would have tried it you would see that you don't need to compile anything. All you need to do is to download the archive, extract it and copy a directory to the right place. There are no dependencies because you don't download a program - it's just a bunch of PHP scripts in a directory that need to be placed in you web root.

"it is at version 0.2 or something: not really stable software if you can judge from the version number"

The low version number does not mean that it's not stable. If you want to give your opinion about something please at least give it a try!

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Re: no packages == no go
by JelleB on Saturday 30/Apr/2005, @11:48

well maybe this one is not chanting the ./configure && make && make install mantra. But it is software, right? Would you say that the are some sorts of software that does not need to be installed with a package manager?

Personally I think not. As they admid themselves, it is a security risk to put this sofware in a publically accesible webroot. So you need to have an intelligent install script that put is somewhere usable but safe, and changes some seting in the webserver to make it safe.

As for the version number: it clearly signals "not yet ready" to me.

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Re: no packages == no go
by Tom on Sunday 01/May/2005, @14:58

"not yet ready" != "not stable"

Normally you don't debug scripts on your production server. It will never be complety safe to do this, no matter if you install it by hand or with "packet management" but don't you think it is more safe to do this by hand where you have to think about what you are doing?

Normally you debug on your local developement machine while developing...

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Re: no packages == no go
by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Wednesday 04/May/2005, @07:27

This is for developers to use as a tool to edit and debug PHP code. Written in PHP. Provided as PHP code.

Is giving *developers* a tool that is only useful for active editing of code and is provided in the same format as their projects now undesirable?

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