[request] Roundcube

Winblowz99 · 2007-05-14 19:24:19

This looks like a very nice webmail client. Would someone be able to create PKGBUILD for it, please?

cactus · 2007-05-14 19:46:10

Most web apps are better downloaded an installed manually.

phrakture · 2007-05-14 20:32:21

As cactus said, we're going to try steering away from puttin web applications into the repos, as it just makes more sense to download and install them manually.

Winblowz99 · 2007-05-14 22:23:33

cactus wrote:

Most web apps are better downloaded an installed manually.

Why is that? I am completely okay with your decision, I am just curious why that is.

Mikko777 · 2007-05-14 22:26:04

Wild guess...

Because they aren't "real" apps, no need to compile so why put them in repo?

phrakture · 2007-05-14 22:48:32

Well, here's the thing. Most web apps, besides the framework involved, are really just "untar this here and configure it". It's painfully easy (take phpMyAdmin for instance).
The other thing is that there's no good way to determine what web server you're using and where your document-root is. Should this package extract to /home/httpd/htdocs? What about lighttpd? What if you changed the config file to use /foo/bar/htdocs? Should we extract .htaccess files if you're running lighttpd? Should we depend on a web server? If so, which one?

There's too many questions that a user easily knows the answer too, but pacman would have difficulty determining the answers.

And for the most part, "tar xzf" is as easy as "pacman -S" for installing 90% of these apps.

For completeness, here's the install docs for roundcube:

1. Decompress and put this folder somewhere inside your document root
2. Make sure that the following directories (and the files within)
   are writable by the webserver
   - /temp
   - /logs
3. Create a new database and a database user for RoundCube (see DATABASE SETUP)
4. Create database tables using the queries in file 'SQL/*.initial.sql'
   (* stands for your database type)
5. Rename the files config/*.inc.php.dist to config/*.inc.php
6. Modify the files in config/* to suit your local environment
7. Done!

The only step pacman would be able to do is #1

Winblowz99 · 2007-05-14 23:03:53

Thanks a bunch guys for explaining that. I guess doing it manually then is the way to go.

Arch Linux

#1 2007-05-14 19:24:19

[request] Roundcube

#2 2007-05-14 19:46:10

Re: [request] Roundcube

#3 2007-05-14 20:32:21

Re: [request] Roundcube

#4 2007-05-14 22:23:33

Re: [request] Roundcube

#5 2007-05-14 22:26:04

Re: [request] Roundcube

#6 2007-05-14 22:48:32

Re: [request] Roundcube

#7 2007-05-14 23:03:53

Re: [request] Roundcube

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