Re: [DISCUSS] Making simple installs easier.

2013-04-25 Thread David Nalley
On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Jörgen Maas wrote: > As a new user (as of today) i can say the following from my personal > experience: > > Welcome - and thanks for pushing the feedback. > The biggest hurdle (in an enterprise setting) is getting the packages for > your platform.Building packages fr

Re: [DISCUSS] Making simple installs easier.

2013-04-25 Thread Jörgen Maas
As a new user (as of today) i can say the following from my personal experience: The biggest hurdle (in an enterprise setting) is getting the packages for your platform.Building packages from source is nice and all, but in my case i don't have Internet access in the datacenter. So the whole maven

Re: [DISCUSS] Making simple installs easier.

2013-04-24 Thread Noah Slater
(Typo, but you can fill in any number you feel like...) On 24 April 2013 12:57, Noah Slater wrote: > Also + for the initiative! > > > On 23 April 2013 20:15, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: > >> >> >> On 4/21/13 3:21 PM, "David Nalley" wrote: >> >> >Hi folks. >> > >> >I've been thinking about our inst

Re: [DISCUSS] Making simple installs easier.

2013-04-24 Thread Noah Slater
Also + for the initiative! On 23 April 2013 20:15, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: > > > On 4/21/13 3:21 PM, "David Nalley" wrote: > > >Hi folks. > > > >I've been thinking about our install process lately. > > > >We currently require folks to muck about with firewall settings, NFS > >settings, network

Re: [DISCUSS] Making simple installs easier.

2013-04-23 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
On 4/23/13 12:15 PM, "Chiradeep Vittal" wrote: > > >On 4/21/13 3:21 PM, "David Nalley" wrote: > >>Hi folks. >> >>I've been thinking about our install process lately. >> >>We currently require folks to muck about with firewall settings, NFS >>settings, network configuration, etc. >>This makes c

Re: [DISCUSS] Making simple installs easier.

2013-04-23 Thread Chiradeep Vittal
On 4/21/13 3:21 PM, "David Nalley" wrote: >Hi folks. > >I've been thinking about our install process lately. > >We currently require folks to muck about with firewall settings, NFS >settings, network configuration, etc. >This makes configuration painful, our docs VERY platform specific, and >ea

[DISCUSS] Making simple installs easier.

2013-04-21 Thread David Nalley
Hi folks. I've been thinking about our install process lately. We currently require folks to muck about with firewall settings, NFS settings, network configuration, etc. This makes configuration painful, our docs VERY platform specific, and easily prone to mistakes which result in failure to get