Matthew wrote:
> Hi, we're finally moving the majority of our WO development away from NT
> (yippiee) and onto Mac OS X Server. I didn't expect this to go extremely
> smoothly, but nevertheless the problem I encountered is annoying to say
> the least.
>
I haven't noticed any serious problems in migrating at all -- with the
exception of a few path name changes everything so far has "Just worked".
> I installed OS X, copied my framework from NT to the new installation,
> and then tried opening the framework in Project Builder. This was okay,
> however when I tried to clean the project, it went on forever thrashing
> the hard drive. I finally stopped this and went to build the project
> which it did in approximately half a second (the status for building
> wasn't displayed correctly, so I presume that it didn't actually build
> anthing at all).
>
> The problem is, when I then restarted Mac OS X Server, it couldn't boot
> into the log in panel, and continously showed the 'starting up' message.
> Therefore WebObjects (or ProjectBuilder) seemed to trash my Mac OS X
> installation. Is there any steps that people should be aware of when
> moving projects from NT to OSX?
>
Were you by any chance logged in as root when you did this?!
I really can't understand why cleaning a WO app should trash your disk,
unless for some reason there was something in your NT project which was
interpreted on MacOS X as "rm -Rf /"
Best wishes,
mmalc.
