[TYPO3-dev] auto-installer support

[Rowan Crawford]

Hello,

I handle the TYPO3 installer for Installatron (http://www.installatron.com/) 
and I'm wondering if I can talk someone into adding auto-installer support 
for 4.1.

At the moment, to auto-install TYPO3 our installer has to jump through all 
sorts of hoops, and we don't include upgrading at all.

I'd love to simplify the installer, and be able to support upgrading.

It basically just needs a way to perform an install and an upgrade without 
user interaction.

For installing, the Installatron installer (and I assume this would apply 
for other auto-installers) would collect information like install location, 
database details, admin password etc, and then install the software (extract 
archive, chmod stuff, edit config file, execute a php file over a socket, 
edit a table cell or two, those sorts of things) basically at the click of a 
button.

For upgrading, the upgrade would do something like extract the new archive 
over the top of the install (retaining old config files), re-chmod stuff, 
execute a php file over a socket, and cheerfully report a successful 
upgrade.

Is there any possibility that this sort of installing/upgrading might be 
made possible in 4.1?

Installatron currently manages something like 10k-15k TYPO3 installs (that's 
an estimate), though with more than one million users with access to 
Installatron I think that usage rate would be a lot higher if we had a 
cleaner install process, and especially if we were able to support upgrading 
through Installatron.

Any possibility?

Thanks,
Rowan.