[rt-users] Installation pain...

[Labonte, Phil]

Well Jay, 

as near as I can figure you have to balance *what you have in place*
with *what it is you need* and *is it worth all the pain and time to get
it to install on something not typical* or pay for some cheap hardware
and get it to work on the platform with the *recommended*
prerequisites...

One of my installs in installed inside a VMware session that is working
on my Windows XP machine.

It's not worth all the time and unknown to get this software to work on
none typical setups, it's just not.

Phil

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[mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of Jay R.
Ashworth
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 12:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [rt-users] Installation pain...

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 11:19:02AM -0400, Labonte, Phil wrote:
> Dumb question but why not install it on Fedora Core3 and the latest
> MySQL builds? 
> 
> I have done 3 installs of RT on this platform and all three installs
> went flawlessly. The documentation to get it to work is all there on
the
> web if you just use google and this list and it's archives.

As near I can figure, Phil, it's because he *has* an FC3 machine
already running *with an already in-use MySQL 3 on it*.

The old "componentized software" problem strikes again: it's much
easier to support the package if you're willing to strictly specify
what people are expected to run it on... but that restricts people from
running it on what they've already got going...

Cheers,
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