post FOSDEM

[Joel Peshkin]

Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote:
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>
> At my company, that's one of the reason we're not using it. Not the 
> only reason, there's also the fact it had from start the image of 
> being ugly looking and complex (and based on perl I have to say, but 
> if all the rest had been right ...) , but when the person in charge of 
> having a go at all the tools tried to install it, failed, spent more 
> time trying, failed again, then ended the report with "I couldn't 
> install it", when he had had success installing most of the other 
> tools in minutes, it was the final nail in the coffin.
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Jean-Marc,

   I hear this a lot and it baffles me.    Could you be more specific 
about where he failed?  Did he have problems with CPAN?  Was he trying 
to install on Windows?  Did he have trouble setting mysql privileges or 
apache webserver configuration?

-Joel