[Typo3-dev] TYPO3core autotools integration and doxygen

[Michael Scharkow]

dan frost wrote:
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> Martin Kutschker wrote:
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>> "Michael Scharkow" <mscharkow at gmx.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
>> news:mailman.1.1111571714.17240.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
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>>> I do know autoconf, but again, I see no purpose for it in TYPO3: You 
>>> can just cvs co && tar czf release.tar.gz and that's basically it.
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>> It could check for PHP and the necessary extensions.
>> It could set the permissions correctly.
>> It could autoconfigure imagemagick.
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> It could download and install extensions - setup tables etc
> It could check for binary dependencies of extensions (e.g. pdflib)
> It could populate the database with users, groups, even page trees from 
> a config file...
> 
> I love automation!

Me, too, but I did not gather from Sven's post that he wants to 
reimplement the install-tool and the extension manager as configure 
scripts and makefiles. That's what you suggest, don't you?

And to the other points: I still think this is possible with a small 
shell script (or makefile) which can be maintained by hand. Except in a 
situation where you have *lots* of workarounds to do, depending on 
certain features of php, apache, mysql, im, etc. But I thought this has 
not been the case until now.

Permissions are trivial to set, as they are contained in the tarball.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to do a lot more administrative work in T3 
from the cli, but this means a lot of work, autoconf and automake will 
not help much. And those scripts will be useless for Windows users.

Greetings,
Michael