[Chandler-dev] Network installer/launcher for Leopard

[Heikki Toivonen]

D John Anderson wrote:
> The only think that worries me about this approach it that it leads to
> large number of different environments we would need to test. Windows
> ran into a similar problem with DLL dependencies that increased the
> chance of random failures.

Sure, there's always a possibility that someone could have installed
some incompatible version or manually edited some version that should
have been compatible. I just not sure how big a chance that would be.
And I don't agree we'd need to test on more combos, just standard Leopard.

Also Debian-based distributions especially have gotten the dependencies
down something excellent. We already have a .deb installer for Chandler
but it lists just a couple of dependencies. On Gutsy Gibbon we could
perhaps go with system Python as well.

One of the main reasons why I am eager to do this is because of the
download sizes. New Lucene bumped the download sizes on Linux and
Windows considerably, and we still aren't nowhere decent on Macs either:

Platform | 0.7.0.1 | r15419
=========+=========+=======
Win      | 18.6    | 29.8
PPC Mac  | 44.0    | 44.3
Intel Mac| 33.3    | 29.8
Linux    | 26.6    | 40.1

-- 
  Heikki Toivonen


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