[MTOS-dev] RPMs?

[Timothy Appnel]

On 1/2/08, Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> wrote:

> application, I would like to make it possible to deploy more than one
> instance of movabletype on a server with a minimum of duplication.

Not to argue good Debian or rpm packaging practices, but MT does
already support multiple instances of MT from one code base using the
MT_HOME and MT_CONFIG environmental variables. Using directives like
PluginPath can help extend that function further. Not sure if that
helps anything here, but its something that has been mostly overlooked
and seemingly (to me) unexplored.

I've always want the option of installing CPAN modules on the system
level as opposed to dealing with the content extlib, but as I
understand it that practice was started as a matter of QA. If someone
installs that latest version of a module that does some irresponsible
and breaks MT Six Apart has to support it with a patch. Being at the
whim of third party developers is not a good business practice. (Those
people are crazy! ;) Perhaps the practice of bundling CPAN modules
should only continue in the proprietary distributions?

What is the list of packages (and versions) installed into extlib
anyway? I've asked in the past for simply informational purposes and
never found out.

<tim/>

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