[Koha-devel] NoSQL

[Lars Wirzenius]

On ma, 2010-06-14 at 11:53 -0400, Joe Atzberger wrote: 
> Zebra, despite whatever complaints we might have about ease of
> configuration [- - -]

*cough*http://debian.koha-community.org/*cough*

:) 

(This is what distributions of free software operating systems, e.g.,
Debian, are meant for: to take the pain out of installing powerful,
complicated software. For whatever reason, most people who write the
kinds of sophisticated software that makes you realize you live in the
future and reduces near-term sci-fi authors to tears[1] are not so good
at making it easy to install, configure, upgrade, and otherwise manage
their software. That's where distributions help. To build something like
Debian is not just a matter of having a fast machine to compile a lot of
source code provided by other people. You also have to put in a lot of
hard work to make everything work out of the box, and also get
everything to work together.)

[1]
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/03/blindsided-by-the-future.html