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To make the install process even more easy for *nix computers, we might automate the process of downloading, checking machine, unpacking, creating databases etc even further. Some software is installed this way, for example ximian's evolution, see the script at http://go.ximian.com/
This means that a root user can do a "wget -q -O - http://go.ximian.com |sh" from a command line and everything is installed.
There are certain disadvantages: one needs unix, shell access, (p)su(do) root access and one trusts a DNS for creating something under root. However, *next* to the current way of installing, it might be easier for some users to install the software this way.
The script self can be rather simple with a bit of interaction with the user (accepting license, asking install path etc). How about it?
Comments
Comment #1
bertboerland commentedwow, 2004... hmm, there is work underway for an installer including dependecies check.
Comment #2
lilou commentedComment #3
kbahey commentedI can work on this if there is enough interest and it will see actual usage.
Comment #4
sreynen commentedThis seems to be a duplicate of #524728: Refactor install.php to allow Drupal to be installed from the command line.
Comment #5
bertboerland commentednot just a dup, but drush seems to have solved this
Comment #7
David_Rothstein commentedYes, the bulk of this was solved by #524728: Refactor install.php to allow Drupal to be installed from the command line (and Drush has a nice wrapper around that functionality). Plus some of the other aspects of this that weren't solved there (e.g., automatically creating databases and downloading files and such) probably are best not done by Drupal core, but rather by Drush alone (and some I think Drush can already do).
So as a core issue, I think this one is fixed.