Hi Juergen,

comments below.


Il 17/05/2016 11:29, Juergen Harms ha scritto:
> On 05/16/2016 08:37 PM, Alexander Moisseev wrote:
>> As FreeBSD sysutils/backuppc port maintainer I can say one of the first 
>> thing that should be done is to split up configure.pl in two parts: 
>> installation script and configuration/update script.
>> It's practically impossible to create pre-built package with monolithic 
>> configure.pl script, and I didn't find a way to do that. Finally I managed 
>> to solve that problem applying awful patch to configure.pl that removed 
>> installation part from it.
> I agree that this is a very important issue. Can you also take the
> aspect on board to facilitate the users work when he adapts his
> customization to a new release? I have always found it extremely painful
> to wade through more than 2000 lines of config.pl to find the 3 lines
> that need to be considered for updating.
That is another, possibly huge, chapter.
Current setup (and especially installation setup, but not only) is not 
extremely user-friendly (or, as Linus once said about Linux: "it's very choosy 
about *its* friends").
It is OK (kind of) for sysadmin-type users with a good Perl background, but for 
the average user it's "a bit uphill".
I fully appreciate the intrinsic power of exposing the inner structure, but 
that is overwhelming for the trivial tasks.
Produce canned sequences for the most used setups should be fairly high 
priority.
What I mean is we should have a set of scripts (to be morphed into a real GUI 
later) covering the most frequent use-cases without requiring Perl source 
modification. I think of a script taking a few parameters and doing the 
appropriate changes into config.pl, much in the same spirit as configure.pl, 
but broken down into smaller pieces that can be reused after initial 
configuration.
This could be architected together with Alexander's work.
first step would be definition of use-cases we want to cover.

What do You think?

> Juergen
Mauro

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