[Catalyst-dev] 2nd Draft Proposal for the Generic GUI for installing Catalyst Apps(CatalystX::Installer)

[Paul Cain]

Hey Marcus,

Thanks for your input; I think it would be great if you were my mentor.

I like the first approach better too.

I'll make a few small tweaks to the proposal and then submit it to Google
with 6.5 hours to spare before the deadline.

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Marcus Ramberg <marcus at nordaaker.com>
wrote:

>
> On 7. april. 2008, at 09.46, Paul Cain wrote:
>
> > Here is the second draft of my proposal for the Generic GUI for
> > installing
> > Catalyst Apps, which I have decided to call CatalystX::Installer.
> >
> > Thanks to everyone who provided feedback on my first draft.
> >
> > Again, questions/comments/etc are welcome.
> >
> >
> Hi Paul.
>
> Your proposal looks quite good. A few comments below
>
>
> > my
> > $preferred_config_type=3DCatalystX::Installer::Forms::SelectionList->ne=
w();
> > $preferred_config_type->add({
> >   'YAML' =3D> "YAML",
> >   'INI' =3D> 'Windows INI File',
> >   'XML' =3D> 'XML',
> > });
> >
> >
> It might make sense to build the Forms stuff on top of HTML::FormFu.
>
>
>
> > This would allow the developer to easily customize the installer for his
> > or
> > her applications. A link to "script/myapp_setup.pl" can be placed into
> > the
> > root directory during make dist.
> >
> >
> > When the user(server administrator) downloads the applications, she
> > first
> > extracts it, switches to directory, and then types the command:
> >
> >
> > $ perl myapp_setup.pl
> >
> >
> > It then starts by checking Makefile.PL to make sure all of the
> > dependencies
> > are installed(and prompts the user if not). Next, it verifies that the
> > program runs correctly by doing the tests. After that, it can display
> > the
> > GUI setup, get the information, create a configuration file in a chosen
> > format, and install.
> >
> >
> > The second solution involves having a dist-file from
> > CatalystX::Installer
> > in the server's root directory and myapp_setup.pl in the cgi-bin. The
> > advantage here is that existing Catalyst applications do not need to be
> > modified in order to use CatalystX::Installer. The server administrator
> > can
> > install the module on his server and then use it to install existing
> > Catalyst applications. The server administrator can then do something
> > like:
> >
> >
> > $ perl myapp_setup.pl catalysty_app.tar.gz
> >
> >
> > What this would do is extract the application to a temporary
> > location(/tmp
> > on *nix, or B:\Users\paul\AppData\Local\Temp on Windows), check the
> > dependencies in Makefile.PL and prompt the user if they are missing, run
> > the
> > application's tests to verify that it works correctly, display the GUI,
> > get
> > the configuration information, write that information to a file in a
> > chosen
> > format, and install. The server administrator could also customize
> > CatalystX::Installer's form in the way described earlier if he or she so
> > chose to.
> >
> >
> Of these two, I prefer the first approach, as it's more in line with how
> Catalyst does other things.
>
> [ ... ]
>
> >
> >
> >
> >  *Project Schedule*
> >
> >  -
> >
> >  May 26 =96 Project Begins
> >
> >  -
> >
> >  Monday, June 9 =96 Alpha 1 released =96 APIs for the basic program are
> >  complete
> >
> >  -
> >
> >  Monday, June 30-- Alpha 2 released =96 User extension APIs are complete
> >
> >  -
> >
> >  Monday, July 7 =96 Beta 1 released =96 All features exist now in the
> >  program; program will be distributed to any willing victims for testing
> >
> >  -
> >
> >  Monday, July 21 =96 Beta 2 released =96 mainly just bug fixes
> >
> >  -
> >
> >  Monday, August 4th =96 Release Candidate 1 released
> >
> >  -
> >
> >  August 11 =96 Release Candidate 2 released =96 This release may be ski=
pped
> >  if no show-stopping bugs are found in RC1
> >
> >  -
> >
> >  August 18 =96 Project goes gold
> >
> >
> > *References and Likely Mentors*
> >
> > Marcus Ramberg was the one who originally suggested this idea to me on
> > the
> > psoc mailing list.
> >
> > Eric Wilherm and Kieren Diment helped me to refine my ideas and
> > proposal.
> > Also, I took the name suggested by Kieren.
> >
> >
> If you want, I'd be happy to mentor this project.
>
> Good luck with the process, and don't hestiate to contact me or any of the
> other catalyst developers on IRC again. Note that a lot of us are always
> connected (using screen or irc), so we get your messages even if we might=
 be
> away from our computers, and are slow to respond)
>
> Marcus
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