Developers of Sympa

[Tim Retout <address@concealed>]

On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 15:46 +0200, David Verdin wrote:
> One of the two-three main development tasks coming for Sympa is: "Make 
> the installation process easier".
> This includes resolving the CPAN problem, and also improve the wizard, 
> which would probably imply that most of the Sympa configuration would be 
> done and modified through the web interface.
> 
> Any thoughts / tips about these aims?

Why not turn sympa (or most of sympa) into a CPAN module?

That way, CPAN dependencies would be handled by CPAN itself, declared
using a META.yml file.  Various distributions already have packaging
tools to take care of CPAN modules, so it might encourage more or better
packages.  There is already a system in place for automated testing of
CPAN modules as well, so add a testsuite and you could get sympa checked
on many different operating systems and versions of Perl.

Regarding web configuration: there'll still be a human-editable file,
right? :)  It's handy for distributors to be able to ship or
automatically modify the configuration.

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Tim Retout <address@concealed>