Also, I'm not a shell scripting maestro but I'd volunteer effort to help keep a tool installer updated.
Tim Worman UCLA GSE&IS On Dec 6, 2009, at 9:36 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote: > I was setting up a new SL dev environment, and just to see what the initial > installation and setup procedure would be like for a complete newbie on SL, I > looked on the wiki for instructions for the simplest possible path to new > installation on a virgin Snow Leopard. > > It seems that really, a newbie would probably be confused and would probably > struggle. :-( > > > After installing WebObjects 5.4.3 using Apple's dmg installer and then > installing the "All In One" Eclipse/WOLips installer from Jeremy's .mac page > (since the sisu download was slow as molasses with an est time of 1 day+!), I > then hit a roadblock, getting an error when launching Eclipse after running > Jeremy's installer. > " An Error has occurred" > " See the log file ~/.eclipse/...../blahblah.log" > > That error log file is full of "missing required bundle" messages. > > Anyway, just FYI, I don't have time for troubleshooting this now .... I am > doing my usual 3.4.2 download and install/setup the manual way. > > Since Jeremy is not working in WO anymore and this is AIO (All In One) > installer is clearly broken for install on a virgin OS X Snow Leopard box, we > might want to just discontinue the all-in-one installer and just go write a > concise "WebObjects Developer Quick Start Guide" for newbies .......so I > started a wiki page on this and will work on completing it as I get time. Any > thoughts on that? Should I wipe all references on the wiki to the AIO? > > If we are ever going to get new devs to come to WebObjects, we need to have a > working quick start. Any dev worth his salt should be comfortable on the > command line, so maybe a bash install script that downloads and installs > various bits and configures everything might be the better route. Any > opinions on that? > > BTW, I went to use the WOInstaller.jar initially and thinking that a newbie > would want standard install paths, I set the WOInstaller.jar target as "/", > but got an error saying System directory already exists. Should the > WOInstaller.jar's CPIO class be changed to just overwrite existing files? > Does that "overlay" directory paths (aka merge eith existing files if named > differently, or does it realyl "replace" existing directories (ie., wiping > them out)? > > Anyway, this is just some meandering thoughts / discussion before I leave off > the "How would a newbie WO dev fare on getting started" for now and go do > some work. > > Regards, Kieran > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/lists%40thetimmy.com > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
