Re: [binarycloud-dev] Another example of a system needy for BC2

[Alex B. <en...@tu...>]

> Exactly!  From what you wrote, you seem to have the same kind of
> "problem" in anticipated administration.  Now, we too have a dream
> that is similar, BC offers the potential.  It is no secret that
> "shopping" carts are becoming a commodity item, say.  So, for
> our modest environment here in eastern NC, we want to be able
> to sell shopping carts on the cheap for everything from mom and
> pops to SOHO to medium size stores.  These sites will not differ
> too much from one another in decoration or layout.  You stepped out and
> said your sites will differ by 10 percent.
> 
> Now I think that BC is a genius concept.  What I want to be able
> to do is write a humungous Makefile where I can sit down with a "parts
> list"
> given to me by Marketing, and type one command line that does
> something on the order of:
> 
> 1.  creates a database and tables
> 2.  populates the database with control data
> 3.  selects a few GIF's that are scattered
> around in the shopping cart for site
> differentiation
> 4.  creates the php files I need that uses
> the modules that I have specified
> from pre-established sets
> 5.  establishes a SITE_ROOT directory with
> a correct, prestablished convention
> 6.  edits my httpd.conf file
> 7.  moves things to where they should be
> 8.  anything else necessary which would
> carry this list to maybe 25 items

Now, that's a proper freakin' makefile! :)

> Now I _will_ restart Apache by hand to preserve my dignity.

hehehe

> The point is, BC will, or certainly has the potential to
> allow this, to make a shopping cart in 5 minutes and have
> it running in five minutes if I have done my DNS work.

yes, it certainly does (frightening)

> BUT, for this, I need for BC to stabilize in its file
> layout, and, and, and... that is why it may seem like
> I have been nitpicking on a genius conception for something
> as mundane as those silly, bloody administration tasks.

yes, but without the nitpicks I probably wouldn't have thought about that
problem because I don't run that kind of setup.

And, to my satisfaction, the answer really is that you can do that:
    -without making significant changes to the directory structure
    -through some fairly simple modifications to the make system.

> After your post, I don't feel as alone...
> 
> Also, if you are going to write some upper-level abstract
> "administration tool" to do what my Makefile would do,
> I want to talk to you after September...  Especially
> if you write it with gtk.

PHP-gtk!

:)

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