LinuxTag 2003: Wez Furlong on ZZ/OSS Installer
Here at LinuxTag, I presented our installer to Wez Furlong, who is very much involved in the PHP development. Wez himself had the idea of implementing an installer, so I showed him what we did.
In general, he really likes the ZZ/OSS Installer.
He proposed the following optimizations:
- preparsing XML in actual release of an application to spare time while executing e.g. dependencies resolving
- run package config command line to read parameters of applications installed on the Operating System
His reservations were:
- it’s GPL
- it’s relatively large (many files) and has a high memory footprint due to the XML parsing
