Re: webcalendars

[Rainer Dorsch <rainer@rai16.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>]

> OK, let's suppose you're packaging this one. Then you have to depend 
> on Apache too. What URL would you put it under? "/achiveo"? What if it's
> been configured away from htdocs/? What if mod_rewrite is used for 
> terminfo-like hashing, so it's really searched for under htdocs/achiveo?
> 
> and so on, and so on.
> 
> Bottom line: Debian is not yet ready for packaging of web applications
> 

I think this statement has some truth. There is no infrastructure for web 
applications available in the Linux distributions, i.e. complicated install 
and deinstall scripts must be written. But usually this way a useful API is 
develoed after having experience with the problems.

But on the other hand, these are details which could be documented in 
README.Debian, if writting the install scripts is a to big hassle. At least I 
have the impression, that Linux distribution could solve this problem easier 
than commercial unixes.

And webrt in potato is an example for a pretty good integration of a web 
application into debian.

Thanks.

Rainer.