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Ken Irwin wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've got a homegrown piece of software that I'll be presenting at a > conference in a few weeks (to track title & call-number request > histories using III's InnReach module). I'm trying to package it up in > such a way that other users will be able to use the software too, and > I've never done this before. > > Is there any open-source or otherwise freely-available software to > handle the installation of a LAMP-type product: > > - displaying readme type information until everything's set up > - creating databases > - creating data tables (in this case, with a dynamic list of fields > depending on some user input) > - loading up some pre-determined data into database tables > - editing the config file variables > > I could make this up myself, but I wonder if someone has genericized > this process. (I'm particularly concerned about how to effectively > pre-load the data tables, not assuming the user has command-line mysql > access.) > > Any ideas? Take a look at the Apache Ant project (jakarta.apache.org/ant). I have been using it for several years to manage java web applications. It should do everything that you want. I am also using for managing Drupal installations with subsites.