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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by bphogan on Thursday March 17, 2016 @12:07AM (#11302512)
Yea. And isn't it funny though in an age of Docker and pre-made VMs that we still configure stuff?

Seems like a quick script would set all this up for us :D

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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by Sanddancer on Thursday March 17, 2016 @02:24AM (#11302859)
A lot of ircds disgustingly put some config options in at compile time, including things like the servername. A friend of mine had her irc server give the generic name for her ircd for several months because she couldn't be arsed to spend the time to recompile and reconfigure.
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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by bphogan on Thursday March 17, 2016 @09:53AM (#11304313)
Couldn't you just make sure that puppet/chef/whatever runs the right config options? Maybe a script that asks you for values up front and plugs them in?
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