Autoconfiscation (Was Re: [rt-devel] 2.1.39: Makefile notes)

[Jesse Vincent]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 04:35:58AM -0700, Stanislav Sinyagin wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> There's a problem in Makefile which has to be handled in 
> the future release:

*nod* As mentioned before on this list, the installation procedure needs
to be gutted before we're ready for a release.

> 
> In addition, DB_DBA and DB_DBA_PASSWORD are taken from config file, 
> though I believe it's not the proper place to keep that data. 

To make the installation reasonably not painful, the DBA and
DBA_Password need to be somewhere we can get to them as perl variables
(rather than environment variables. we want to avoid passing them on the
comandline)
> 
> What about getting use of autoconf/automake? 

Autoconf scares me. That doesn't mean I won't use it, but it's a
heavyweight tool that's rather complex and obtuse. Also, I suspect 
it might complicate the win32 port somewhat, though that's based on a 
hunch, not on any actual facts.   I'd be thrilled to have something 
autoconf-like that's written in perl, if it exists.  I'd definitely take
a good long look at a contributed autoconfiscation of RT's install
process, if someone was feeling so bold.  Frankly, I'm not convinced
that a Makefile is really the right option for a large tool that's
entirely in perl, but I don't actually have a better proposal at this
point.

	Best,
	Jesse

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