On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Ted <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings
Hi Ted, > > My record numbers are several thousand, so it's Staged for me! > > But I must admit that the build instructions (https://github.com/ > zepheira/backstage/wiki/Building-backstage) are totally beyond me. > Perhaps this is because I am used to downloading 'complete' > applications from github rather than 'building' my own. It certainly > wasn't helped by this sentence "You will need a JVM installed with > appropriate enviornment settings (JAVA_HOME, etc) along with Maven 2.x > +. You will also need Babel as well as SIMILE Butterfly. Butterfly > should be installed in a peer directory to Backstage...". > > Seriously, I 'thought' I knew a thing or two but clearly I've been > kidding myself. Is there no-one else in the Group who is similarly > challenged? It sounds like the issue here is that you're expecting that it will be as easy to deploy a Staged exhibit as it will a Scripted one. While I think we've done a pretty good job at ensuring that the *authoring* experience is consistent between the two (and with Exhibit 2), there's no escaping the fact that the Backstage is a long-running software component that requires separate installation, configuration, ongoing maintenance, and generally, a skill set quite different than the one needed to author an exhibit. I would suggest that if you're not able to follow those build instructions, that you probably shouldn't be attempting to run your own production Backstage instance. Perhaps you know somebody who can help you set it up? Failing that, you might have to wait until somebody decides to offer Staged exhibit hosting. I'm sorry if this isn't the answer you were looking for, but thanks for bringing it to our attention. I'll be updating that Wiki page shortly to add a disclaimer similar to the above. Mark. -- 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.
