On Sep 25, 2008, at 11:47 PM, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network ICT Team wrote:
> Hi! > > Vincent Massol wrote: >> Hi Ricardo, >> >> On Sep 25, 2008, at 8:13 PM, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network >> ICT >> Team wrote: >> >> >>> Thanks both! This step is clear for me now at least in a MacBook Pro >>> box. Next station: check out the software and try to build it. >>> >>> I am writing down the steps toward a developing environment in a >>> MacBook >>> Pro in a XWiki page here... >>> >>> http://xepecnet.environmentalchange.net/xwiki/bin/view/ICT/DevelopingEnvironmentMacOsX >>> >> >> Sounds good but why don't you link to the maven book for installing >> maven for example: >> http://www.sonatype.com/book/reference/public-book.html ? >> >> This would allow not to repeat the information. >> > > Simply because I'd not reached this site yet! Of course this is the > place for detailed instructions and, if anybody find anything > missing or > wrong, it must be corrected there. Thanks! > > Don't you think it is worth a link to this book about maven in > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/ > Building#HInstallingMaven > or any other location in this page? Done. >> I think a tutorial like this is very worthwhile. I'd personally not >> put any information outside of xwiki and instead provide links since >> otherwise you'll have to explain a lot for all possible situations + >> update if frequently when one of those external tool change. >> >> WDYT? >> > > I think that the only merit of this simple tutorial is to create a new > installation workflow focused on creating a developing environment. > Sincerely I think that it won't be frequent that anybody starting > developing in XWiki has not already installed some or all of the > required pieces before reaching this page :-) > >> Note that the difference between set up on Mac OSX, Windows or Linux >> is very slim IMO. For all of them you can (for example) simply unzip >> tomcat and run startup.bat or startup.sh. >> > > This could be possibly truth for experienced people. But, for > instance, > to set up a Tomcat daemon in Mac OS X requires some extra work. See... > > http://www.malisphoto.com/tips/tomcatonosx.html?#Anchor-JSVC > > In Windows, the Tomcat installer does this work for the user. But this > information would be better entered in... Why would you want to do this for developing XWiki code? :) > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/InstallationTomcat Sure but it's almost already there I think since we link to http://tomcat.apache.org which should be the place where all information about Tomcat should be found. However feel free to add as many links as you want there, the more the merrier. > Summing up, my draft will remain in our xwiki just for our > reference. It > could be worth to add this two links (Maven: The Definitive Guide and > Installing Apache Tomcat 6 on Mac OS X Leopard) in the more suitable > place. Agreed. Go ahead! Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
