[MKDoc-dev] Improving MKDoc Installation

[Bruno Postle]

On Fri 24-Sep-2004 at 07:24:47AM +0100, Chris Swaine wrote:
> 
> Well as just a humble user and not techie I am now totally lost, so
> will bow out of this! To some degree this re-enforces one of my
> original points which is, who this CMS for?

We don't bundle MKDoc into a one-click easy-install because we have 
no need for such a thing ourselves - Whenever I've installed MKDoc a 
combined perl/apache/mkdoc package would have just got in the way.

This doesn't mean that it wouldn't be a good idea, it just means we 
have to concentrate our time, energy and money on things that make 
sense for us.

MKDoc does have a distance to go to make installation easier, but 
this will probably be in terms of modularisation, improved makefiles 
and test suites.

If you look around at "open source" software, you will find that 
making friendly packages is often a separate aggregator role.  As an 
example, I build RPM packages of various panoramic photography 
tools, even though my code contribution to this stuff has been 
minimal:

    http://bugbear.blackfish.org.uk/~bruno/apt/

Chris has begun something similar for MKDoc, he probably could use 
some help.

-- 
Bruno