[Catalyst-dev] Proposal to the Perl Foundation for CatalystX::Installer

[Kieren Diment]

On 28 Apr 2008, at 15:26, Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Kieren Diment <diment at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>>> There is no command line version of this program since anyone who
>>> wants to use the command line can just edit the configuration files
>>> directly. I think this program could be classified as a new approach
>>> that is also an aggregation of existing tools and ideas.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>  dunno about that.  You could override the myapp_install.pl script  
>> so that
>> if @ARGV is not empty it runs it from the command line:
>>
>>  script/myapp_install.pl --dsn dbd:sqlite:dbname=foo.db --admin- 
>> user=fred
>> --admin-passwd=wilma --deployment-path=/ and so on.
>
> Hmm.  My understanding was that all of the options above could be
> entered in the GUI.
>

Here's the picture i was trying to paint:

admin goes to set up application on host with the installer gui.

At the end, the installer remembers how it set stuff up, and presents  
the admin with a screen "you can set this up on another host with the  
command catalystx-installer --options ...

which the admin can then tweak to do subsequent installation on other  
hosts without having to do very much work at all.

Is that not sane?