-----Original Message----- From: koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-admin@lists.katipo.co.nz]On Behalf Of Pat Eyler Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 7:58 PM To: Jeff Williams Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz; koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Koha] 1.2.1

On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Jeff Williams wrote:

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Pat

I am willing to look at producing a Windows Distribution that will install MySQL, Perl, Apache.

This would work on win98/ME/2000/XP.

Wow, this would be great! A couple of quick issues: please make sure that any changes to the Koha core system are checked back into CVS and are coordinated with the release managers the code is under the GPL, while the installer needn't be (just the koha software itself), it would be nice to keep it all under the same license so as not to confuse things it would be best to avoid adding additional requirements, please let us know what if any additional requirements will be needed so that they can be added to the documentation

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I am also considering producing a windows client for Koha. Would there be interest here???

What programming language would you be developing in?

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Could also have a windows forum area at http://schools.hardsoft.com.au/forums

Sure, what would people need in order to make use of it?

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Regards

Jeff Williams HardSoft Solutions Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Eyler" <pate@eylerfamily.org> To: "Pete Dubler" <pete@dublerfamily.com> Cc: <Koha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>; <kohabiz@eylerfamily.org> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 1:47 AM Subject: Re: [Koha] 1.2.1

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Pete Dubler wrote:

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Pat,

It would be awesome to have Koha come out as an rpm for redhat installations.

We've had packages for... ask the list who did them, I can't recall who made

"Client"? I'm not sure exactly what he means -- I'm assuming he means the circ tools. I recommend we direct this guy to the various chunks of Perl code we have floating around. There are platform independent choices for GUIs, and I really think we should be using them for at least one of the circ systems -- I'd suggest them. Might've been Steve?

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We would very much like people to produce pakages (.rpm, .deb., .pkg, .lpp, or whatever) which we could put up in a contrib area.

This is something I think we can learn to automate... a fair amount of effort/research will be necessary, but this is a good area to "recruit" around, as the problems are widely applicable. I assume you've seen the commentary about the growing aggravations of things like RPM lately?

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We would also like to see turnkey koha systems (either a CD that can be installed on a blank system or a full blown koha server).

I think that these last two bits are excellent roles for koha support company to fill. It could give you a nice product and some good postioning. I concur -- especially in light of the fact there is no "one way" to install Koha. This