{"id":5083,"date":"2003-11-05T06:54:08","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=5083"},"modified":"2003-11-05T06:54:08","modified_gmt":"2003-11-05T13:54:08","slug":"open_source_blu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/05\/open_source_blu.html","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the middle of trying to install Gallery, which is an open source photo gallery program.  Cool stuff, and a lot of folks on the web use it.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it suffers from most Open Source programs&#8217; woes &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The documentation is okay (better than a lot of Open Source programs, in fact), but still woefully inadequate to the wide array of systems that it might be installed on.\n<li>The documentation assumes a technical expertise that some folks don&#8217;t have.  Processes in the installation and configuration that should be automated aren&#8217;t (e.g., CHMODding files and directories back and forth between secure production mode and scratching-your-head configuration mode).  Indeed, most stuff that involves installing stuff on web servers is like this, as is anything else that involves cross-OS knowledge.\n<li>There&#8217;s a robust support forum that is used to make up for the documentation and variety of installation circumstances.  Unfortunately, that&#8217;s like trying to go into a large medical convention and find the conversation going on about the precise condition you&#8217;re suffering from; it&#8217;s possible, but you go through a lot of dead ends.<\/ul>\n<p>That all being said, I&#8217;m still positive about the program and getting it to work &#8212; eventually.  But it really harkens back to the days of installing stuff in DOS and figuring out the drug interractions there, only about cubed. Nothing is ever as simple as it sounds like it should be, and the little conveniences that modern desktop users (Win or Mac) are accustomed to &#8212; installation and deinstallation packages, for example &#8212; are nearly non-existent.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well.  Enough <i>kvetching<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the middle of trying to install Gallery, which is an open source photo gallery program. Cool stuff, and a lot of folks on the web use it. 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