Ok thanks a lot, I think now I got it. As you said, I think I'll first try to write my thesis and get familiar with velocity before starting to contribute :).
Greets from Vienna, markus > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Henning Schmiedehausen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 06. Dezember 2006 18:43 > An: Markus Auchmann > Cc: 'Velocity Users List' > Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Installing Velocity 1.5 on Windows > > Hi, > > oops, sorry if I confused you. > > a) If you want to test out / develop using Velocity, get the > binary distribution. It contains the velocity jar, the docs > and API docs and your are set to develop. > > b) If you insist on compiling Velocity yourself, get the > source distribution. If you have network connection and > ibiblio is not down, you should be fine by entering the > "build" directory and running "ant world" here. > > c) If you want to contribute to Velocity (and if you are a > bit familiar with building software), you can get the source > distribution (or check it our from our Subversion repository) > and take a look at the > VELOCITY-466 issue and the ivy setup described in > whiteboard/henning/using_ivy. > > As you wrote yourself that you are a beginner with Velocity, > I'd recommend that your start with a). :-) > > Best regards > Henning > > On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 10:56 +0100, Markus Auchmann wrote: > > Ok thanks a lot for your reply. Do I just have to install > ivy or do I > > have to make configurations in ant or velocity to get through the > > velocity installation process (as you can see it's my first time in > > the java/apache/velocity/ant/... world :) ) > > > > Can you tell me why the installation process is not working > at my machine. > > Is it something which has to do with my specific system > configuration > > or is it a winXP issue? > > > > Greets, > > markus > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: Henning P. Schmiedehausen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 05. Dezember 2006 23:05 > > An: [email protected] > > Betreff: Re: AW: Installing Velocity 1.5 on Windows > > > > "Markus Auchmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > If anyone knowing maven 2 a bit and is looking for a way to > > contribute, please take a look at VELOCITY-466 > > (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-466). While I'm not > > sure that downloading ~870k of Maven dependencies to get 2M of jars > > quicker, that might be one way. Another could be ivy > > (http://incubator.apache.org/projects/ivy.html) for which I > actually > > have an example in the velocity tree > (whiteboard/henning/using_ivy). > > With ivy coming to the ASF, this might be the best way to go. > > > > Best regards > > Henning > > > > > > > > >Hi Claude, > > > > >Thanks a lot for your hint - today I had no problems in > going through > > >this step of the installation process. But (unfortunately) > I have now > > >another problem now - with junit. When testing the > installation with > > >'ant test' - ant told me that there is a error with junit. So I > > >followed the hints given by ant, downloaded junit and > added it to my > > >classpath (the .jar and the directory). Then I copied the > .jar to the > > >ant/lib and velocity/lib directory. Now the installation > fails with > > >another > > issue: > > > > >###################################### > > >junit-download: > > >http-test-download: > > > [get] Getting: > > http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/junit/jars/junit-3.8.1.jar > > > [get] To: C:\velocity-1.5-beta2\bin\test-lib\junit-3.8.1.jar > > > [get] Not modified - so not downloaded > > > > >[...] > > > > >clean-dependency-classes: > > > [delete] Deleting directory C:\velocity-1.5-beta2\bin\deps > > > [mkdir] Created dir: C:\velocity-1.5-beta2\bin\deps > > > > >[...] > > > > >test: > > > [junit] Running > > >org.apache.velocity.test.AbsoluteFileResourceLoaderTestCase > > > [junit] Tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Time > elapsed: 0,015 > > >sec > > > > >BUILD FAILED > > >C:\velocity-1.5-beta2\build\build.xml:802: Test > > >org.apache.velocity.test.AbsoluteFileResourceLoaderTestCase failed > > >###################################### > > > > >Maybe you can help me once again in solving this problem. > > > > >Thanks a lot to all of you! > > >Greets, > > >Markus > > > > >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > >> Von: Claude Brisson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> Gesendet: Montag, 04. Dezember 2006 21:32 > > >> An: Velocity Users List > > >> Betreff: Re: Installing Velocity 1.5 on Windows > > >> > > >> Maybe the ibiblio repository was down at the time you > tried the build. > > >> You can try again later, or you can download manually the needed > > >> jars elsewhere (but be sure their name is post-fixed with the > > >> version numbers you have in the build.properties file) and add > > >> "skip.jar.loading > > = true" > > >> to the same file (build.properties). > > >> > > >> Claude > > >> > > >> Le lundi 04 décembre 2006 à 16:14 +0100, Markus Auchmann > a écrit : > > >> > Hi, > > >> > I tried to set up the new Velocity 1.5-beta2 on my windows xp. > > >> > When > > >> trying > > >> > to build it I get a build failed which says that the > download of > > >> > antlr-2.7.5.jar was not successful. Therefore I managed to > > >> > download this .jar and put it into the build/lib ... > but nothing changes. > > >> > > > >> > Can you tell me what I might did wrong? (I'm using ant 1.6.5 & > > >> > jdk1.5.0) > > >> > > > >> > ################################################ > > >> > C:\velocity-1.5-beta2\build>ant test > > >> > Buildfile: build.xml > > >> > > > >> > build-prepare: > > >> > > > >> > build-download: > > >> > > > >> > antlr-download: > > >> > > > >> > http-download: > > >> > [get] Getting: > > >> > http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/antlr/jars/antlr- > > >> 2.7.5.jar > > >> > [get] To: C:\velocity-1.5-beta2\bin\lib\antlr-2.7.5.jar > > >> > [get] Error opening connection > java.io.FileNotFoundException: > > >> > http://mirro > > >> > > rs.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven/r/antlr/antlr/2.7.5/antlr-2.7.5.jar > > >> > [get] Error opening connection > java.io.FileNotFoundException: > > >> > http://mirro > > >> > > rs.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven/r/antlr/antlr/2.7.5/antlr-2.7.5.jar > > >> > [get] Error opening connection > java.io.FileNotFoundException: > > >> > http://mirro > > >> > > rs.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven/r/antlr/antlr/2.7.5/antlr-2.7.5.jar > > >> > [get] Can't get > > >> > http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/antlr/jars/antlr-2.7.5.jar to > > >> > C:\velocity-1.5-beta2\bin\lib\antlr-2.7.5.jar > > >> > > > >> > BUILD FAILED > > >> > C:\velocity-1.5-beta2\build\build.xml:142: The following error > > >> > occurred while ex ecuting this line: > > >> > C:\velocity-1.5-beta2\build\download.xml:33: The > following error > > >> occurred > > >> > while > > >> > executing this line: > > >> > C:\velocity-1.5-beta2\build\download.xml:69: The > following error > > >> occurred > > >> > while > > >> > executing this line: > > >> > C:\velocity-1.5-beta2\build\download.xml:54: Can't get > > >> > http://www.ibiblio.org/ma ven/antlr/jars/antlr-2.7.5.jar to > > >> > C:\velocity-1.5-beta2\bin\lib\antlr-2.7.5.jar > > >> > > > >> > Total time: 2 seconds > > >> > ################################################ > > >> > > > >> > Thanks a lot, > > >> > Markus > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> > -- > > >> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > Henning P. 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