On Tuesday 28 March 2017 10:07:00 Andreas Schaefer Sr. wrote: > Hi Oliver
Hi Andy, > It would be nice if the Readme would indicate that this is a work in > progress to avoid users wasting time on a piece that is not ready > for prime time. As the trunk is probably the first thing people > get as Sling code this would be helpful I think. the very first sentence says that this sample is using snapshots. People having no experience with Sling should not use trunk but releases. > In my opinion an example should be plug and play. For anyone > not very familiar with Sling this is disheartening and can turn them > away from Sling. I hope that Fling eventually gets there but for > now I pass as I don’t have the time to look into that (have my own > little peeve Sling project). The Fling sample is using modules (from trunk) which cannot be part of Launchpad – that means no plug and play with Launchpad (using Sling Karaf makes it plug and play though). Nevertheless it works for others and some find it quite useful. I'm sorry that it doesn't work for you. Regards, O. > Thanks - Andy Schaefer > > > On Mar 28, 2017, at 1:22 AM, Oliver Lietz <apa...@oliverlietz.de> wrote: > > > > On Monday 27 March 2017 13:05:38 Andreas Schaefer Sr. wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> I tried to install Fling from the Samples but failed with the latest > >> Sling. > >> > >> First I had to install Sling Messaging and Sling Query but then > >> I gave up on Sling Thymeleaf which has dependencies on > >> com.fasterxml.jackson.ocre etc that are not deployed in Sling and it also > >> looks like they are not deployed by any other bundle. > >> > >> A sample does not much good if I cannot build and install it, right? > > > > *sigh > > > >> I am pretty fluent with package dependencies and so if I cannot > >> figure it out in an acceptable time frame then who will. > > > > Stop whining and start reading, please. > > > >> Any pointers on how to get this working would be very much > >> appreciated. > > > > The version of Fling is 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT which clearly indicates that it is > > work in progress. Fling itself depends on some snapshots namely > > Validation and Messaging (and therefore has to be adjusted sometimes when > > those dependencies do incompatible changes – see my latest commits). > > Fling's prerequisites are listed in the README: > > https://github.com/apache/sling/tree/trunk/samples/fling > > > > How to install Scripting Thymeleaf is described in its README (and btw. > > Jackson is optional): > > https://github.com/apache/sling/tree/trunk/contrib/scripting/org.apache.sl > > ing.scripting.thymeleaf > > > > If you are unable to install those dependencies into Launchpad you can try > > with Sling's Karaf Distribution: > > https://github.com/apache/sling/tree/trunk/karaf > > > > Start Karaf and open http://localhost:8181/system/console/features, > > install > > sling-launchpad-oak-tar and sling-samples-fling by clicking the > > play/install buttons on the right. Open http://localhost:8181/fling.html > > > > O. > > > >> Thanks - Andy Schaefer
