Based on the pervious discussion, I have already provided minor
changes in https://issues.apache.org/bloodhound/wiki/BloodhoundInstall
Regarding getting sources from tar.gz intead of svn, I suggest the
following changes in installation steps on BloodhoundInstall wiki:
Index: BloodhoundInstall
===================================================================
--- Version 12
+++ Version currently edited
@@ -97,6 +97,6 @@
{{{
- svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/bloodhound/trunk
bloodhound
- cd bloodhound/installer
+ tar xvzf apache-bloodhound-incubating-<version number>.tar.gz
+ cd apache-bloodhound-incubating-<version number>/installer
virtualenv bloodhound
source ./bloodhound/bin/activate
@@ -112,5 +112,8 @@
}}}
-Note that for windows, amongst the other differences you should use
+=== Notes for Windows users ===
+*.tar.gz format is not natively supported by Windows. You have to use
external utilities to extract apache-bloodhound-incubating-<version
number>.tar.gz file. For example, you can use free utility
[http://www.7-zip.org 7-Zip] for such purpose.
+
+Amongst the other differences you should use
{{{
bloodhound\Scripts\activate.bat
