[Koha-devel] Prepackaged perl distro

Joshua Ferraro jmf at liblime.com
Fri Jul 25 14:09:47 CEST 2008


On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:45 PM, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:
> Rick Welykochy <rick at praxis.com.au> wrote:
>> Yes, the XML mess has bitten me before. It is probably something
>> beyond the scope of Koha installation to prevent.
>>
>> *UNLESS* perl and all its required C libs are plunked into
>> a separate area and a known-to-be-right combination of
>> everything perl is used. A big ask, I know. Esp. for those
>> who want Koha to just work out of the box with their existing
>> perl distro.
>
> Just to be as sure as we can be, shouldn't we bundle that perl and all
> its required C libs with copies of zebra, MySQL, Apache httpd, Linux
> and the tools needed to get it all running?
>
> We could use the debian or gobolinux live CDs as a starting point.
What ever happened to the idea of packaging Koha for one
or more GNU/Linux distros (MJ, aren't you a Debian contributor?) ?

Cheers,

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