I'm not understaning...

I don't know to explain it to you any better than to say that it doesn't work very often. If you need proof, just check out Bricolage and then take a look at Bricolage's bug database under 'Installation'.

And finally, I'd feel concerned about the consequences of your apache forking 30 children...

That's strange. 30 processes is nothing to a modern Linux or BSD system with reasonable hardware. I'll be sure to tell people how much resource usage to expect, but I doubt it will be enough to put a dent in anyone's load average. This application is a development tool, like Bricolage, and not a front-end web service.

Who's your target audience: have they clue or not?

I think an installation system should target people with enough Unix experience to enter a few commands at a shell prompt and edit a text file. I've come to learn that expecting more is expecting too much.

-sam

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Installation System Design for a Large Apache/mod_perl Application by samtregar
in thread Installation System Design for a Large Apache/mod_perl Application by samtregar

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