On Saturday, April 18, 2015, Ian C <i...@amham.net> wrote: > Hi Gabriela, > > that is good. My build was done of Fedora, but an Ubuntu build should be > the same. Maybe change the heading to Linux?
I recommend making 2 instruction sets, there seems to be slight differences. > > I think the dependent libs required are just the devel versions, not both? > > And on Ubuntu a user would install them via the command "sudo apt-get > install xxx" and on Fedora via "sudo yum install xxx > > I also think the section under Automated Testing needs attention > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Corinthia/Automated+testing > > And somewhere we need a quick note on how to run and convert a document. > > I still do not know how/if I can generate and ODF document, no the odf filter is not finished. > > Thanks for your update. I would edit the page myself, I have a cwiki > account, but do not seem to have edit rights? give me your cwiki account and I will give you karna rgds jan i > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Gabriela Gibson < > gabriela.gib...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > I used Peter's previous reply to me to update the build instructions > here: > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Corinthia/Build+instructions > > > > I can't check it (since a virtual box will not run very well on my little > > machine), but in theory, this should be correct, or, at least a little > > closer to what we have currently. > > > > Ian, does this match your experience? > > > > G > > > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 4:46 AM, Ian C <i...@amham.net <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > > > Thanks Peter, > > > > > > I can see that the tests pass now. > > > > > > And dfconvert does not handle odf documents yet? What is the progress > > with > > > that? > > > > > > I can at least help test that if there is any progress there. If not I > > may > > > try and start something. > > > All pointers accepted. Contact me directly if you wish. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Ian > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Peter Kelly <pmke...@apache.org > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Ian - unfortunately the documentation is out of date; something we > > > need > > > > to fix. Sorry about that. > > > > > > > > Most stuff has been moved out of dfutil now, and there’s two new > > programs > > > > called dfconvert and dftest. > > > > > > > > For dfconvert, run it without arguments and will give you > instructions. > > > > > > > > For dftest, give it a single command-line argument pointing to the > root > > > of > > > > the repository, and it will find all the test cases and run them. > > There’s > > > > no longer a separate “tests” directory; we’ve split the code up into > > > > different modules (e.g. Core, OOXML, etc.) and each has it’s own test > > > > directory. dftest searches through all the directories recursively to > > > find > > > > the necessary files. > > > > > > > > — > > > > Dr Peter M. Kelly > > > > pmke...@apache.org <javascript:;> > > > > > > > > PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key < > > > http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> > > > > (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966) > > > > > > > > > On 9 Apr 2015, at 6:22 pm, Ian C <i...@amham.net <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > > > after upgrading my system (now Fedora 21) I have been able to build > > > > > Corinthia. > > > > > > > > > > A couple of points > > > > > > > > > > I had to clone it from github, the Apache links did not work, > neither > > > of > > > > > those mentioned on the top level page. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Build instructions... > > > > > > > > > > We need to make it explicit that the development packages for > libxml2 > > > and > > > > > SDL2lib are required. > > > > > Oh and SDL2_image as well. > > > > > > > > > > Once I had those the build went ok. > > > > > > > > > > The documentation then says run > > > > > > > > > > dfutil -test $DOCFORMATS_DIR/tests to run some automatic tests. > > > > > > > > > > There is no tests directory. I see a bunch under the Editor > > directory. > > > > > > > > > > Anyway I tried to convert some documents with dfutil. Which didn't > > > seem > > > > to > > > > > work. > > > > > (and as part of the instructions we need to explain that dfutil etc > > > need > > > > to > > > > > be in the PATH or run via a direct path) > > > > > > > > > > I created a trivial html. > > > > > And was able to generate a docx. However only via dfconvert > > create.... > > > > > dfutil didn't work for me. > > > > > > > > > > I was able to run dfutil and get a plain text/xml dump of the docx. > > > > > > > > > > I can open the docx in Caligra and see my content. > > > > > > > > > > I don't seem to have as much time as I hoped but will still keep an > > eye > > > > out > > > > > and chip in if and when... > > > > > > > > > > At least I have something running now. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > > > Ian C > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Ian C > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Visit my Coding Diary: http://gabriela-gibson.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > -- > Cheers, > > Ian C > -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
