Re: [Fwbuilder-discussion] fwbuilder installer

[Bill C. <Bill@Explosivo.com>]

On Thursday 23 September 2004 11:44 am, Vadim Kurland wrote:
> I ran new build and uploaded windows package to the web server. Packages
> for other platforms will follow once build finishes.
>
> So, the question is, does it make sense to try to cover as much typical
> platforms as possible by adding them to the list of supported "host OS",
> or should I stop now and leave this up to administrator ?
>

My thought is that this just widens the area you have to support...  Now, not 
only do you have to support the program and keep up with the changes to 
iptables and all the others, now you are going to need to keep track of the 
different O/S configurations and what supports what, etc...

If your taking outside input, I would suggest instead of supporting these 
directly in the application, more education on creating your own install 
shell script.   Perhaps user contributed ones could be posted somewhere - but 
in any case it takes the support burden off of you. 

Of course there is nothing saying you could not write some if you wanted to or 
take what you have and put it in a starting point, but at least it would not 
be something you need to directly support.

I think if it something specific to the host that is absolutely needed to run 
the script then yes... scheduling reboots and such are not a direct 
requirement for functionality

Just my thoughts.

Bill