Today I fought around with python's setuptools and assorted other things to wrangle what might be an installable tarball of TiddlyWeb. I need some volunteers to try it out to make sure it is working. Anyone is welcome to give it a try, but it would probably be best if you've had some experience installing software (especially python modules) on your computer. Theoretically TiddlyWeb should work on Windows, Linux, OS X and various Unix flavors. It's been tested on OS X and Linux.
If you are willing to give it a try, please follow the instructions below and report back success or failure. If you get an error about a problem with zlib, try running the previous command again. I've been getting that one sometimes with no pattern. Apologies to those of you using Windows, these instructions are biased to unix-like systems. 1. Download the gzipped tarball from http://peermore.com/tiddlyweb/dist/tiddlyweb-0.2.tar.gz to a convenient location. 2. Use your favorite tar tool to unpack it (it will expand into a directory called tiddlyweb-0.2): tar zxvf tiddlyweb-0.2.tar.gz 3. Change directory to the newly created directory. 4. Install the software. To do this you may need administrator privileges (use sudo), or if you know how, install things to your own preferred location: sudo python setup.py install 5. There will be a bunch of stuff on the screen, including some information about following dependencies. This latter part is the part that is most likely to fail. If it does trying a second time may help. 6. Once the code installed change to some other directory. In this directory we will create a TiddlyWeb store and run the server. 7. In that directory make the store directory: mkdir -p store/{recipes,bags,users} 8. Make a bag with the name 'foo': twanager bag foo </dev/null 9. Create a file, let's call it 'input' with the following content: --snip-- modifier: WikiMan Welcome to TiddlyWeb WikiMan! --snip-- 10. Turn that file into a stored tiddler: twanager tiddler TestTiddler foo < input 11. Start up the server and put it in the background: twanager server 0.0.0.0 8080 12. In your browser visit http://0.0.0.0:8080/bags/foo/tiddlers.wiki This should result in a TiddlyWiki containing TestTiddler 13. In your browser visit http://0.0.0.0:8080/ This should give you a screen that lists 'recipes' and 'bags' from which you can browse around a bit. 14. Back in the terminal window hit ctrl-c to stop the server (this make take a bit to respond, there are threads to reap). Once we've established this system is working, I'll start making regular releases of TiddlyWeb and start building tools to make the rest of the installation process more smooth (for example it should be easier to establish a basic server with a bit of content, without all that whoo ha above). Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" 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/TiddlyWikiDev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
