Hi Andreas, we are very sorry about the current situation - thanks for reporting the problems!
We're currently working on fixing the download page and it should be working again very soon. If during a build tests are failing, the easiest thing to get a running Sling at the end, is to disable the tests by running mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true install It's not the way it should be, but nevertheless gets you the wanted result :) We're currently working on getting the tests running again. So this is just a temporary problem. In addition we're very hard working on getting the next big milestone, SLING-6, ready - this will be a ready to start download of the latest and greatest :) We're currently in the middle of the process, so SLING-6 should be ready in some weeks. If you have additional comments or run into other problems, please let us know. Regards Carsten Andreas Kuckartz wrote > Hello! > > yesterday I wanted to try Sling again and have a look at David Mini CMS > https://cwiki.apache.org/SLING/gsoc-2010-mini-cms-project.html > > Unexpectedly that failed (not because of David Mini CMS). > > First I found out that no binaries are available on the website because > the links are broken: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-1768 > > (The download page states: "Note that the above releases are relatively > old (May 2009). If you want to experiment with bleeding edge code, > building Sling yourself is not that hard.". Why are no binaries of the > most recent released version made available?!) > > Then I spent some time finding an old file for sling in the archive and > tried to install David Mini CMS on it. But that also failed because some > of the dependencies are not met. Obviously and understandably David Mini > CMS depends on more recent Sling components than those provided by an > obsolete version of Sling. > > Then I tried to build Sling from the sources with Maven according to > http://sling.apache.org/site/getting-and-building-sling.html > > But that also failed because testSemiRandomInstall fails: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-1737 > > And at the end launching Sling of cause also fails because there is no > jar file to be launched. > > Cheers, > Andreas > > > -- Carsten Ziegeler cziege...@apache.org
