Talk:Metadot-7-beta

I have a few remarks to your HowTo:

1. Why are you advising to install a beta version of a software package? Most SME Server are production servers and need stability. Packages that are labeled beta are well known to cause problems as they are no where near a stable release.
2. Do you really need the CentOS-testing repository? Packages installed in this repository are bleeding edge and still have to be tested on CentOS, they can not be labeled stable. As SME Server tries to be a robust server installing stuff from a testing repository is for testing purposes and not for stable releases
3. Why do you need mysql-server? There is already a version installed on SME Server. Is that one not sufficient? It has been proven in the past that installing a newer version of MySQL would almost certainly brake things like webmail.

IMHO you are better of writing a HowTo on installing the lastest stable version of this package and wait for the new version to become at least a release candidate before teaching people how to install such a package. - Cactus 01:03, 30 August 2007 (MDT)

I do need the CentOS testing repo, the current version of ruby is 1.8.1 and the version needed to install Metadot 7 is ruby 1.8.5 I do believe that the current version of metadot is stable enough, as i have tested it on a test server as well as an production server without any problems so far I am in the process of checking the installation procedures and will double check if a later version of mysql-server is required.

Fine, if you think it is stable... but I guess they do not release beta's without a purpose, or would they? Above that there has been no word AFAIK since someone (probably one of the developers) announced it somewhere in march 2007 [1], neither is it mentioned at the metadot site. They even say there are no beta releases at the moment [2] - Cactus 10:54, 30 August 2007 (MDT)}