Re: [Koha-devel] Installer for 2.3

[Roger Horne]

On Mon 18 Jul, MJ Ray wrote:
> For All Koha Hackers:
> * A new installer is in development.
> * The start is already in CVS. It doesn't work yet.
> * I've read old koha-devel posts and I've looked at other projects,
> so I think I see at least some of the pitfalls.
> * If you think I will break your code, please warn me now.
> * I aim to have this working well by the end of August.

Can I suggest one inprovement over the existing version (which you probably
have already thought of and I think was discussed some time ago) and that is
to provide some system of checking passwords. Things like the "kohadadmin"
pw do not really matter since they can be changed afterwards, but entering
the wrong pw for MSQL is disastrous: you have to start again, doctor the
MSQL files etc. Would it be possible (1) to ask for pws to be entered twice
and (2) for the MSQL pw to be checked (using msql -uroot -p or whatever)
before the script is run? 

A less important point is that at the moment the q about "do you want to
install a head branch and a printer" seems to take the answer "Yes" no
matter whether the user types y or n ... (And I do not think the two should
be concatenated. There must be many installations where only local printers
(attached to worstations, and using CUPS not lpr) will be used, the koha
computer having no printer attached.) 

Roger
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