[freeside] Documentation

[ivan]

On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 04:06:01PM -0800, Jason Spence wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 06:09:21AM -0800, Kristian Hoffmann developed
> a new theory of relativity and: 
> 
> > Yes but the CPAN module will automagically compile and install all the
> > modules for people with limited experience using perl.  I don't really see
> > finding the modules on cpan as a problem for new users but rather the
> > process of compiling and installing.  Updating a list of current links to
> > the latest versions of the modules can get tiresome. 
> 
> Oh, I see what you're thinking now.
> 
> I didn't mean just include the tarballs, but include the tarballs
> along with an installation script which automatically took care of the
> compiling and installing for them as well.

No.

> However, you're right about the version up-to-date problem with the
> modules.  Not sure how to deal with that.

This is what distributions do.

>  On the other hand, wouldn't
> it be a problem if we just always gave the user the latest module
> version?  What if the module author introduced something that broke
> Freeside?  It hasn't happened so far, but you never know...

It *does* happen, and this is why distributions "freeze" on software that
isn't always the latest-and-greatest.

-- 
meow
_ivan