[Kolab-devel] On the road to Kolab 3.0

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Christoph Wickert <wickert at kolabsys.com> schrieb:

>On Sunday 11 December 2011 22:41:15 Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
>> Quoting "Georg C. F. Greve" <greve at kolabsys.com>:
>> >
>> > Due to the shortcomings of OpenPKG there is simply no way we can
>provide
>> > this on OpenPKG, however, so we've been working on a KVM image that
>can
>> > be run against a 2.3.* Kolab Server which Jeroen should provide an
>> > update for in the next days.
>> 
>> Can you clarify on those "shortcomings"?
>
>- Does not build/install on recent systems
>- Does not integrate with distributions
>- Needs dedicated user accounts
>- No automatic updates
>- Limited package pool
>

Sorry, probably wasn't clear that I was referring to the shortcomings that specifically disallow installing it on openpkg.

>> Not that I would like OpenPKG. But as Roundcube is a PHP application
>it
>> should be possible to install it into the Kolab Server on OpenPKG. 
>
>It requires a database server such as Postgres and MySQL, this in turn 
>requires a new (apache-)php package.

Ah. I wasn't aware that it does not run on sqlite.

>
>> Would be far easier
>> than a KVM which does not sound like a good solution to be honest. 
>
>Why? The KVM image gives people a chance to test it in a clean
>environment and 
>we can be sure that their environment matches ours when they file bugs.
>It's 
>all about reproducibility.
>

For a smoke test, yes.

>> Or are there instructions on how to get the same thing on the Kolab
>> Server as well?
>
>What is "the Kolab Server"?

:D

>
>If you mean the OpenPKG based server, please have a look at
>http://wiki.kolab.org/Kolab2_Integration_with_MySQL and
>http://wiki.kolab.org/Install_Roundcube_on_Kolab
>

Ok.

Gunnar


>Regards,
>Christoph
>
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