Developers of Sympa

[Luc Didry <address@concealed>]

While working on the Yunohost package 
(https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/sympa_ynh/)
at the Strasbourg hackaton, I was wondering if it's worth it to hack
sympa_wizard.pl to make it more automation friendly.

Why: Yunohost is a software that allows you to easily manage a server and 
install
apps (like wordpress, creating a mail system, nextcloud, etc) with a click 
from
a web insterface. The apps' installation can't be interactive, so we hacked 
the
wizard to make it not asking anything.

Cons:
- first: it will be deleted in the future (will be replaced by a task, 
according
  to hackaton's plan)
- second: a little bit of sed and the job is done. It's not a big deal to
  automate the wizard --check

Pros:
- if it's integrated upstream, it's better since it's available for everyone
  (and with tools like puppet, salt, ansible, automation may be useful)
- installation could be easier if you can pass some arguments on the command
  line
- asking for installing DBD::Pg, DBD::SQLite and others DBD:: packages when 
you
  choose Mysql is quite odd

My plan, if you think hacking wizard would be useful:
- adding an option, only used in combination with --check that will skip the
  "Hit enter to continue" (--quiet)
- adding an option, only used in combination with --check that will choose the
  db type and skip the question (--db mysql, --db pg, etc)
- avoid to ask for others DBD::XXX installation

What do you think? Should I hack sympa_wizard.pl?
-- 
Luc
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