[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #8162: Simple online install process

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#8162: Simple online install process
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 Reporter:  xibe             |       Owner:             
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new        
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  2.9        
Component:  Upgrade/Install  |     Version:             
 Severity:  normal           |    Keywords:  needs-patch
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Changes (by xibe):

  * milestone:  Future Release => 2.9


Comment:

 Since 2.9 is now [http://surveys.polldaddy.com/s/2F95783C8744F81A/
 tentatively expected in November 2009], I'm hopeful 6 months could be a
 sufficient length of time to build this idea into WordPress.

 WordPress is a modern tool, and not having such a modern install process
 is really showing, now that the unzipped archive is almost 10 Mb, with
 more than 800 files. Sure, auto-upgrade is nice, but first-timers still
 have to go through the pain of downloading/unzipping/uploading for long
 minutes.

 As shown earlier, other modern tools are implementing that, and more are
 coming (the recent MIT/GPL project [http://ladistribution.net/ La
 Distribution] [http://ladistribution.net/en/wiki/install has it], for
 instance). I think 2009 should be the year WordPress has such an auto-
 install process.

 If not, I'm afraid it might be pushed back to a later time, and who's to
 say when?

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