Re: [Opencd-devel] What about flavors?

[Alex R. <tun...@pa...>]

Imran Ghory wrote:
> 
> On 4 May 2002, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> 
> >
> > Interesting idea. Once we have the installer stuff sorted out it's
> > really not much more work to make 3 versions.  Other plusses:
> >
> > 1)  Having the Corporate Backend version allows us to push some of the
> > really heavy hitters like Apache and mySQL, without worrying about
> > confusing the novice user.  It would also be good to associate the
> > OpenCD project with these apps because of their good reputation.
> >
> > 2)  Each category can have different criteria.  The Home verion must
> > stress simplicity while the Backend reliability, etc.  In total, this
> > would allow many more apps to qualify.
> 
> I've been doing some number crunching and found that their exists about
> 240mb of programs that could go on the CD, excluding most programming type
> software, but including some server software (Apache, MySQL, PHP and
> Perl). So I don't think at this stage we need to break them off into
> seperate CDs just seperate sections.
> 
> (I'll make a breakup of the figure available later today)
> 
> On another note at 240mb range we could reasonably include source.

Or maybe a question at the beginning of the installation, something
like:

"Where are you installing this software?"
(Click on)
"Home" "Office" "Backend Server"

Alex