Well, Robert was replying to me; it's my frustration with Typo he's
addressing.
2 feedbacks are still better than one, thank you for yours
My first real issue with it is the complexity of its installation,
and the requirements it imposes if you want to run it on the same
box with Apache (i.e., the proxying thing with Mongrel). I found
little in the way of informative installation instructions; mostly I
saw step-by-step guides that explained nothing beyond "do A, B, and
C".
There are actually lots of way to run Typo, or any Rails app. Let's
say :
– Apache + mongrel
– Apache + mod_rails (my favourite, and the easiest way imho, just run
mod_rails 1.5 since 1.9 and beyond have issues with the memory). Check
at http://typosphere.org/2007/08/26/install-typo#apache_modrails
– Apache + fastcgi
– Nginx + thin
– Nginx + mongrel
– Lighttpd + thin
– Ligthtpd + mongrel
– Lighttpd + fastcgo
And I may forget some of them.
But that's a basic architecture thing. The Typo leaders decided to
build it this way, despite the extra complexity it demands over a
traditional LAMP-stack-in-a-VHost type deployment. Mileage varies,
and all that.
The traditionnal LAMP stack implies you're using PHP. Typo is Ruby on
Rails, and thus, was a bit more difficult to deploy until recently.
Check mod_rails at http://modrails.com, these guys may help you going
to simplicity LAMR-in-a-vhost.
My major complaints with Typo itself are three-fold:
First, that it does not play nice with MarsEdit or any other local
blogging client. I'm coming to Typo from a long-term Blosxom install
where I wrote in TextMate and rsync'd my posts, and picked Typo
because I thought I'd be able to use ME or even TM's own blogging
bundle. Unfortunately, neither categories nor tags work properly via
these clients, pushing me back into the web editor. That's annoying.
I have the online features I wanted but couldn't get with Blosxom
(mostly comment-related), but have lost functionality w/r/t my
actual posting mechanism.
It's at the same time a bug AND an absent feature.
– The categories issue has been fixed in the trunk and this will be in
the next release, if not already (I'm damn too much lazy to check now)
– The tags is a missing feature, mostly because the guy who added them
was not blogging using an external client and then didn't think about
them. I myself never used such a client until recently, for debugging
purpose. And guess what, it was for the above point.
Second, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get my feeds to
work; see my other posts for more information there.
We've been having lots of cache issues which have been fixed in the
trunk, and the lateste release as well. Try to manually remove your
feed files from public/. It should be articles.rss or articles.atom,
don't know which ones you use. These bugs made me realize I really
should extend our tests coverage.
Third, it's not at all clear to me how to upgrade. I thought I'd
done it, but my site still reports an old version number.
It's actually pretty easy. I've always written doc on how to install
Typo, not about how to upgrade it. Another thing added to my TODO list
before the next release. I wish days were 50 hours.
Don't know how you installed typo, but you can just unpack Typo in
your current directory and have it overwrite your old apps files.
Restart your application and run rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
if you're running in production mode (and please, do it, it's VERY
important since you won't be able for that time to access the database
upgrade page in your admin)
Any help you can give me would be appreciated! I'd prefer to avoid
WordPress and Moveable Type given what I know about either platform,
but my frustrations with Typo make staying with it a challenge.
I stopped using wordpress which I was a contributor since the B2 era
for typo because I was so much pissed off with it.
Hope this will, haven't written a so long mail in English for ages,
hope I didn't do too much mistakes
Cheers,
Frédéric
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Frédéric de Villamil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +33 (0)6 62 19 1337
http://fredericdevillamil.com Typo : http://typosphere.org
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