Thanks for those thoughts, Mark. Are you familiar with the expression "red rag to a bull"?
Regards Ted On Dec 12, 1:57 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
