Le dimanche 13 juin 2010, Thomas Goirand a écrit : > I don't agree with you on the reasons. The thing is, PHP applications > in Debian aren't made to support multiple instance. The result being > that it doesn't make sense to use them, because you wont be able to > have more than a single site with it. Some of them are. gallery2, for instance, has a multisite support. > If there was a move toward multiple instances using a single package, I am > quite sure that the situation would be different. Their is a move, at least with DokuWiki. Their is a semi-official way to build a multisite installation (they call that “farming”), that used some non-free (CC-BY-NC-SA) scripts. I wrote to ask for a license change some months ago, and I have just received a reply: these scripts are now free (GPLv2), so I am now able to work on multisite support. But I think that packaged webapps can be very useful, because: - they allow anyone to simply “aptitude install dokuwiki” to get a working installation without worrying about file system paths, rights and so one; - they often result in a cleaner, more secure setup (remember that many webapps install guides are written for users of mutualized hosting, and thus suggest to chmod -R 777 webapp_directory); - they can interact with the web server(s) configuration, allowing to get a working installation without having to define an Alias or a VirtualHost (based on the suggestion of an installation guide that was written for an Apache HTTPD with monolithic configuration, and that was never written for [insert here your favorite web server]); - they can integrate configuration options with debconf, providing a single interface. In fact, I know that at least some users do use at least one packaged webapp: mine. Because I get bug reports, some of them being my fault, and I sincerly regret being only able to write the fix and not to upload it to Debian or have it quickly uploaded, thus leaving my users with a bug that I have corrected, but that they cannot apply automatically. -- Tanguy Ortolo
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