Hi Martin,
We download the virtuoso-opensource-6.1.2.tar.gz snapshot from
sourceforge, and installed the debian package in it on a debian
(lenny) Linux system.
In contradiction to the product working fine so far, we have some
issues with the vad packages that come with the snapshot.
Installing from conductor the package 'Demo' (version 1.107.34)
crashed
(my thanks to Hugh Williams who provided me a more recent version,
1.107.66, that installs well)
There are no patches for building the demo vad package between the
development tree and the 6.1.2 snapshot.
All packages are loaded into a clean database as part of the 'make
check' command in the demo directory. This is done prior to every
source release.
We are performing some checks to see if we can determine what could
have failed building this vad using the debian build method. We will
let you know as soon as we find any issue and will make sure this is
fixed in the next release of VOS.
Package 'doc' (version 1.1.18) seems to be incomplete
- the local pdf is missing (a minor issue, I agree, but a symptom?)
That is because the build process to produce the pdf document is a bit
peculiar and i think needs some tools not available on every platform.
We are trying to see if we can fix this for some upcoming release.
This document can always be downloaded from:
http://docs.openlinksw.com/pdf/virtdocs.pdf
For the full documentation you can always go to:
http://docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso
this site always has the most up-to-date documentation and will
certainly be newer than the snapshot.
- topics are missing (RDF Data Access and Data Management is topic
14 rather than 16 in http://docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/ - 2 topics
missing)
There are some chapters missing from the documentation that have to do
with functionality that is only available in the commercial version of
the documentation. The documentation on docs.openlinksw.com are the
full set of docs, including chapters on Clusters, Geo Index, Virtual
Database and Replication.
For list of differences between Commercial and Open Source edition,
please also read:
http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/features-comparison-matrix/
- in the RDF Data Access and Data Management topic (the one I'm
interested in to start with),
chapters are missing ('Extensions' - really useful, and: this
functionality is available in the build)
Please use the online docs for now.
The upcoming release 6.1.3 will include a new snapshot of the
documentation.
Did someone else have the same experience with vad packages in this
snapshot?
Are the vad packages in the snapshots not always in sync with the
product?
Is there a general advise on installing vad packages?
They are in sync with what was available in source form at the time
the snapshot was produced.
Patrick
