On 06/13/11 01:44, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > On Friday 10 of June 2011 20:08:00 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:37:46 -0500 >> >> Matthew Summers <quantumsumm...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> After consultation and discussion at length with several developers, I >>> am writing to announce the impending revival of the tool known as >>> app-admin/webapp-config effective immediately. >> >> You might want to chuck it out and start from scratch... >> >> Much of the difficulty with the original webapp-config was that it was >> designed to work on Windows. Stuart's plan was to create a distribution >> and operating system independent way of dealing with web apps, sort of >> like CPAN; Gentoo was merely the testbed. If your goals don't match >> that, you're probably better rethinking everything than trying to revive >> something that was designed for a completely different purpose. > > Also, for pure Gentoo needs it may be better to replace webapp-config with > package manager and eclasses. How does that handle multiple installs etc.?
> So to install web apps to /usr/share or sth and provide apache config files > to > set up those webapps like Debian does for instance ZOMG NOES. That stuff is horrible, it randomly patches the webserver config wrongly, then restarts the webserver - so installing nagios knocks out your apache. Which then makes for some funny debugging ... Let's aim higher than that, please, I don't want random misbehaviour :) - so dispatch-conf would be > utilized for tracking config file modifications and uninstall via unmerge > > One major obstacle is that we have quite a number of web servers to support > if > we're to provide out of the box experience for those web apps. > So provide a default config for, say, apache, and then figure out if that can be transcribed to others easily. Maybe it can be turned into simple templates to generate all configs from? -- Patrick Lauer http://service.gentooexperimental.org Gentoo Council Member and Evangelist Part of Gentoo Benchmarks, Forensics, PostgreSQL, KDE herds
