Greetings allSuccess!! It can be done, even by someone who probably shouldn't be attempting to run their own production Backstage instance or is so friendless that they mistakenly thought that the mail group was an OK place to ask for help/directions. In any event, I've completed an install of Staged and I'm running the Sweden Europea demo/ sample (or at least it appears to me that I am). I had suspected that git/github was the missing link, and a few hours research and Googling got me going. Maven, Ant and Backstage are still "black-boxes" to me, but thanks to Google I figured out how/where to download and install them. The rest was trial and error; Total time investment on this occasion = , say, 6-8 hours. It may never go into production, but at least I have installed the development server and I will not die wondering whether or not I should have persevered with Staged. It was hit-and-miss and not without problems but it can be done with some creative and persistent Googling. It seems that Scripted will suit only very small data sets, and Staged will suit only veerry large sets, and any in-betweeners may suit themselves.I am sorry if that is not the answer that the Exhibit3 Team was looking for. Regards Ted
On Dec 13, 5:57 am, "[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.
