Month April 2004

Harry Fuecks Comments ZZ/OSS Installer

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Harry Fuecks took a look at ZZ/OSS Installer and his honest comments clearly describe the status of the application and its potential.

Yes, true, the latest release of the installer is a development release with known and still-to-be-found bugs 😉 We are collecting feedback from the community on new features and hidden bugs, that’s why we did this early release. Meanwhile, development goes on and we are fixing bugs and implementing new features for the next release 1.1.0dev2.

Although the application itself is not yet superstable, I believe it is good enough for experienced PHP devs to start deploying their applications with it. Developing and installing applications that entirely or partly consist of PEAR-like packages, is much easier with ZZ/OSS Installer compared to PEAR Installer, because there is e.g. automatic dependency resolving built in. This tutorial on deploying phpMyAdmin with ZZ/OSS Installer gives you a basic idea how to procede.

Should you encounter any problems, feel free to contact the ZZ/OSS Installer developers via the mailinglist, IRC, etc. as stated on the ZZ/OSS Installer project Website – we’ll do our best to help you. The nice thing is, that once you have a working ZZ/OSS Installer on your system, it is pretty easy to install the latest version with this installer from CVS sources.

ZZ/OSS Installer Client 1.1.0dev1 Released

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ZZ/OSS is happy to announce that the ZZ/OSS Installer Client (ZIC) 1.1.0dev1 has been released. ZIC is a PHP-based installation wizard and development tool for professional release management of modular PHP applications.

This is a development release with new features. You can use this version to make your own PHP software installable with ZIC. The schema of the XML files describing your application is solid.

This new tutorial on making phpMyAdmin installable with ZIC is a good start.

If you use Mozilla, please make sure to set the preference ‘network.http.redirection-limit’ to the value ’30’ or higher if you get a “redirection limit” error. Type ‘about:config’ into the address field to access the preferences.

Download ZIC 1.1.0dev1 from the Sourceforge project homepage.

Please report bugs to the bug tracker, mailinglist, or IRC.

More information is available at the installer homepage
http://www.zzoss.com/projects/installer/

An excerpt of most important changes:

  • works on Windows and Linux
  • integrated plugins and packages manager for installed applications
  • development applications can now also be installed
  • default install path of development applications has ‘-dev’ added to app name
  • new default theme ‘kde’ which is more neutral
  • option to automatically remove setup wizard after installation
  • handle different magic quotes settings
  • progress bar shows download process
  • single packages or plugins can be added
  • works with E_ALL error reporting
  • fileroles: default behaviour of installer without having any filerole plugins installed is that the file gets copied to the location specified in filelist/file of package.xml
  • configurable quick installation of development applications allows for faster development
  • detect circular dependencies of packages needing each other
  • process filelists with nested dir elements in package.xml