I have a few projects that will go live soon using Exhibit, some use several exhibit extensions, some use only the Timeline extension. My thought was to host the code locally. It seemed like a best practice for production services. Also, I wanted access to the latest Exhibit and Timeline trunk code. I was successful in checking out the latest trunk version for Exhibit and running it locally. A few quick thoughts:
1) Is it best practice to locally host the Exhibit/Timeline code? Or could/should I point to the trunk version on the Google Code servers? (I know "trunk" and "production" usually don't sit well with each other but that's OK for these projects for now!) 2) I know the Google Maps markers depend on a painter service hosted on simile.mit.edu. Could that be part of the source code for Exhibit? OR a separate checkout? Or if useLocalResources=true, then maybe you can use a standard set of png markers that is included locally. 3) As FYI, I followed this doc: http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Exhibit/2.0/Running_Exhibit_Yourself. (http://www.stevetrefethen.com/blog/HostingMITsSimileExhibitOSProject.aspx as well but seemed a bit off in some cases.) 4) Timeline vs Exhibit Timeline extension. Are these essentially the same thing? It looks like the Exhibit Timeline extension calls the Timeline project code on static.simile.mit.edu, even when Exhibit is hosted locally. So, if I want the latest Timeline features, I would need to svn checkout the Timeline trunk and host that locally as well. Is that correct? I would love to question the future of Timeline and whether it would be rolled into Exhibit or stay its own project. I just don't know about about all the pros and cons of each, and how that relates to Timeplot, Calendar/Timegrid, etc... Personally, I would prefer to work with Exhibit only with the ability to turn on/off extensions as needed. Thanks. - John ************************************************** John Callahan Geospatial Application Developer Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware 227 Academy St, Newark DE 19716-7501 Tel: (302) 831-3584 Email: [email protected] http://www.dgs.udel.edu ************************************************** --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
