[Phpeselgui-developer] Re: ToDos for phpEselGui - a small overview

[Roman K. <rom...@ep...>]

> >>Something i forgot to mention in the list:
> >>Any good ideas for a installation-script...?
> > 
> > Yes: Let's use normal Linux-Packages: rpm, deb, and for those without a popular distribution: .tar.gz
> 
> OK, but im not realy addicted to them (i always compile the sourcecode 
> myself :), so i'm currently unable to built them.
I never handled with rpms, but i think i can build some simple .debs (without debconf!)

 
> BTW: Which operating systems do we have on our computers? My Webserver 
> is on a SuSE 7.0 (but, as mentioned before, self-compiled with 
> "--prefix=/xxx")
My Server is a Debian Woody (3.0r1 with all sec-updates of course)
My Clients are mainly Debian, too. My Sister's PC is a woody, my (very old) notebook is a woody too, and my personal workstation is Debian Unstable + Win98 + 2 Partitions which are for testing purposes (in the moment Debian Testing and FreeBSD 5.0)

> And many of the users us the webserver from their hoster and are unable 
> to rpm there...
What about providing a install-script within the .tar.gz-archive? It's just that i hate installationscripts which MUST be run. The user should have the choice to install it manually or let it do the installation-script

> > A propos config... can't we move it to /etc/phpeselgui? Since it can be viewed with a browser, this is a security-hole, isn't it? 
> 
> This is a security hole, we could built a new folder "config" and store 
> there a very restrictiv .htaccess. /etc/xxx is a problem on the sides 
> being hosted at big providers (you won't have write access at /etc there...)
What about putting it into /etc and offering a sed-command (in the documentation) to change it to any other place? The advantage would be, that phpEselGui was a little more LSB-Near.

Or we could set the config-directory to /etc/phpeselgui, if phpeselgui was installed from rpm/deb?

> (...)
> 
> > 
> > The best thing would be docbook-xml. We could convert it in most popular formats (html, xhtml, pdf, ps, txt, etc.), but when i tried to use it yesterday, i run into _BIG_ trouble cause docbook-xml is relatively new and i wasn't able to find good documentation for it.
> 
> If you can explain us the basics how to use them, why not?
As i told you: i wasn't able to get it to work... i'll have a look at it @ the weekend maybe... but until then, we should think about pure .txt-files

> >>P.S. Something i forgot to mention:
> >>we'll need some newer screenshots at phpeselgui.sourceforge.net...
> > 
> > 
> > Done
> > 
> > Sven, please have a look at it, if it comforts you, please erase the old-directory (this is where your old screenshots had been)
> 
> Thanks, looks cool, we'll make it bigger later on (when 0.6 final is out 
> i think).
OK... and maybe the next version shouldn't be 0.7 ;). I think we're closing 1.0 to fast *g*

Roman