Hi Stéphane,

Thank you for your suggestions. I will try some things and let you know how 
they go.


Cheers,


Jonathan van Alteren
Founding Member | Object Guild B.V.
Sustainable Software for Purpose-Driven Organizations

jvalte...@objectguild.com
On 22 May 2020, 08:49 +0200, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr>, 
wrote:
> Hello
>
> Hi jonathan
>
> I have to check because this is the first book we wrote with Pillar.
> Normally with more recent books I add a build to produce automatically the 
> pdf (but I have to check because latex is sometimes super boring
> -like not offering the same packages).
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to be able to build the EnterprisePharo book, so I might 
> > contribute to it with some improvements. However, the README seems to be 
> > out of date.
>
> What you can do is to issue PRs if they break we will
> >
> > The 'download.sh' file mentioned under 'Download Pillar' is not there. 
> > There's a 'subdownload.sh' file, but that doesn't do or output anything, 
> > and looking into it, the URL returns a 404 
> > (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pillar-markup/pillar/master/download.sh).
> >
> > So I manually cloned the pillar git project from 
> > https://github.com/pillar-markup/pillar. I checked out tag v7.7.4, since 
> > that was mentioned for Pharo booklets. Building that works, resulting in a 
> > pillar 'executable'.
> >
> > However, after installing MacText, executing 'pillar build pdf' fails with 
> > the message: FileDoesNotExistException: 
> > '/Users/jvalteren/git/EnterprisePharo/_support'. Looking at the structure 
> > created by the command 'pillar archetype book', it seems that '_support' is 
> > the new name for the 'support' folder that does.
>
> Yes. between pillar 6 and 7 we revisited fully the pipeline and the 
> configuration managed and many more.
>
> > So, I created a symlink from '_support' to 'support' and tried building 
> > again, but that fails with the message: KeyNotFound: latexWriter. This 
> > seems to be related to the contents of the 'pillar.conf' file.
>
> What we can try is to copy the _support file of a more recent version + edit 
> the config and index/main.pillar files.
> I will be try to find some time this evening.
> >
> > Instead of trying to guess what's going on and try different things to fix 
> > this and get it built, I thought to reach out here :-)
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what to do so I can start making changes to the book?
>
> First send a PR so that it is not lost.
>
> >
> > I'm on macOS Catalina by the way, so 64-bit only.
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> > Jonathan van Alteren
> > Founding Member | Object Guild B.V.
> > Sustainable Software for Purpose-Driven Organizations
> >
> > jvalte...@objectguild.com
>
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