The existing instructions for starting up developing using maven don't seem to work very well and is a big barrier for starting out developing with magnolia 5. The maven archetype has issues (missing a repository definition for Vaadin, and a version number for the war plugin), but I think I've sorted those out.
Now I'm stuck with some weird behaviour from the magnolia repository. When I add the STK and DMS modules as the documentation suggests, the app fails to launch because of a dependency on the fckeditor module. The problem I'm having is that when I declare a dependency to that the latest versions don't seem to be available from the maven repository. Browsing the repository using the nexus interface show there are various 5.0 version of fck editor, but looking through the repository index itself only shows much older versions. When I try to use the newer version numbers maven says it can't find them. I've set up the maven settings.xml file as directed in the documentation but I'm still not getting anywhere. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I haven't worked with magnolia for several years, but back when I last used it there was a huge barrier to new users because of a lack of documentation to help get you started with development. Things seem to have improved a lot, but there's still no simple walkthrough of setting up a development environment (at least I can't find one) - if my experience is anything to go by a lot of new users must be falling at the first hurdle and it seems to me that a small amount of effort producing a simple getting started would be a very good investment. -- Context is everything: http://forum.magnolia-cms.com/forum/thread.html?threadId=d5a32076-0bd8-443d-b54c-24d5da9e0731 You are invited to Magnolia Conference. Less than a month to go! Register now: http://www.magnolia-cms.com/conference/register.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details, see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/community/mailing-lists.html Alternatively, use our forums: http://forum.magnolia-cms.com/ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------
