Re: [installer] adding my own distribution

[Sandro Z. <san...@zz...>]

On Tuesday 23 December 2003 16:16, Christian Stocker wrote:
> > What did you imagine, how adding an application should work? This could
> > help us with offering alternative methods or GUIs.
>
> a website is either offering me an url to an distribution(s).xml or to
> an application(s).xml. I'll fill that somewhere in a form in the
> (already installed before) installer and the rest is taken care of, ie,
> the installation starts.

Actually, you define the URL to the distributions.xml. The installer grabs it 
and displays the available distributions (as in "Download Applications" in 
ZIC). The user chooses the distribution and then its applications.

Right now, the URL to distributions.xml can only be specified upon 
installation of the installer. The next release will come with the feature 
that it can be re-configured.

> Or did I get it the wrong way? I'm a supposed to deliver a package with
> the zzoss-installer, which includes my xmls (like described in
> http://www.zzoss.com/phpwiki/index.php/ZzossInstallerBundleApplication)
> and the enduser has to run just that, but on the other hands needs a
> single installer "installation" for every "application" he likes to
> install?

Maybe, what you are searching for is a kind of simple or static ZZ/OSS 
Installer Server (ZIS). The ZIS itself is just like PEARWeb a server-side 
package deployment application. There you upload packages, define 
applications and distributions.

What you might want is that you can define a simple deployment infrastructure 
with the installer client itself. Something where you add various 
applications to the installer client and later choose to export them. This 
would give you a .tgz that you can extract on your server, which will include 
all the distribution(s).xml, application(s).xml, package(s).xml you need. 
Then you point the installer to the distributions.xml and you got your own 
deployment network up and running.

In this respect, I see that a drop-down list would be good in 
dev_application_import.php that allows you to choose from already importet 
distributions.

Sandro