I went through LiveUser and got it up and going last night.  I posted 
comments on the FAQ page of the wiki that outline the steps I had to go 
through to get example4 and the GVN samples working together.  I think 
that this series of instructions is what everyone who complains about 
LiveUser wants - before digging through the theoretical or even 
technical details of how it all works, they want to have something that 
they can poke around in and see what it would do for them if they get it 
all set up.

No that I can see it in action, it does look like a very well-engineered 
system.  But it took me easily six or seven hours, spread across the 
entire day, to figure out all of those steps.  And I'm pretty sharp, I 
think, and I was already somewhat familiar with PEAR and MySQL.

If you can make it easier for newbies to find that series of steps, and 
maybe cut some of them out (like dependencies on other PEAR packages, as 
someone on the wiki suggested) you'll get more people buying in and 
using LiveUser and more people interested in assisting with the development.

Cheers,

Tim

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