Are you talking about the server, or the studio? The server shouldn't
be too hard, just open the package in pacifist, and put the files in
all the same places, read the install scripts and such, and try it.
--
Robert Garcia
President - BigHead Technology
VP Application Development - eventpix.com
13653 West Park Dr
Magalia, Ca 95954
ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040
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On Dec 4, 2007, at 9:43 AM, Stephen Smith wrote:
Had anyone ever figured out a way to install 5.0 on a Mac running
Tiger? I remember there was some problem that Apple changed the way
installer's worked and the original 5.0 installer wouldn't work on a
Tiger machine.
I've got a license for 5.0 Mac which I'd love to use for my own site
which sadly is still running Tango 2000 on a Windows box. I'm
looking to revamp the site in the coming weeks and would love to
move it over to a Mac. I was going to purchase 5.5 but only if I was
going to be given the upgrade to 6 when it came out. I don't want to
purchase one upgrade and then turn around and have to purchase a
second upgrade.
I'd love to hear from someone who was able to use the 5.0 installer
on a Tiger machine.
Thanks,
Steve Smith
Oakbridge Information Solutions
Oakville Office: (416) 628-0793
Cambridge Office: (519) 489-0142
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: www.oakbridge.ca
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On 3-Dec-07, at 9:25 PM, Robert Garcia wrote:
I think webobjects had some promise, but it is very lightly used.
Go with something like .NET or PHP to increase your ability to work
with more clients, and in the enterprise. Just my opinion.
--
Robert Garcia
President - BigHead Technology
VP Application Development - eventpix.com
13653 West Park Dr
Magalia, Ca 95954
ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/
On Dec 3, 2007, at 4:42 PM, Rick Donagrandi wrote:
I had Tango 3 and Filemaker on a Mac PPC 7600 for years very
reliably.
I loved Tango so much I convinced my day job (at the time) to
purchase Tango 2000, which we ran on a PC, connecting to an Oracle
db... also very reliably.
Since then, I had to redevelop my personal website for OS X and
the latest Tango. I moved to Mac OS X Tiger Server, on an iMac
running Tango 5.5 and OpenBase through JDBC.... I'm still using
FileMaker (currently at version 9), though: I collect and serve
all my information through Tango->JDBC->OpenBase, but I edit and
manipulate data through OpenBase->ODBC->FileMaker.
I'm actually very happy, so far, with this setup with few issues.
My biggest issues were in initial setup, and they all had
workarounds.
I had to completely redevelop my site because Tango 5.5 is sketchy
opening and editing older files, and has no (current) FileMaker
support on Mac OS X (this is partly FileMaker's fault by requiring
FileMaker Server if you want to use FileMaker as a Server DB).
Every time I tried opening and editing one of my older Tango 3
files, Tango Studio would bomb if I tried to change the data
source.... In fact, just adding a data source in Tango 5.5 (for
any interface) bombs the app...
I think Tango was one of the best development platforms out there
for web apps, but sadly, I've just seen support for my platforms
of choice go down the tubes.... It's very hard justifying the
expense of Tango, anymore. I can't even imagine trying to upgrade
my server to an Intel Mac and Leopard!!! Even sadder still, is the
near silence from WiTango on their development plans for Intel
Macs and Leopard....
If I had the time, my next development platform of choice would be
OpenBase and WebObjects... the learning curve for WebObjects,
though is very steep -- even with computer language/development
experience! Luckily, I don't have to go there in the near term...
On Dec 3, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Kent Swisher wrote:
I had Tango 2000 running reliably for years on 300Mhz G4 with
webstar 3 and Filemaker 4. Performance was never an issue for
our internal applications. G4 hardware is easy to come by for
cheap. Only recently converted all to PC. Still using filemaker
for Witango apps, but we may yet convert to mysql.
-> Kent
On 12/2/2007 11:54 AM, Bob Parks wrote:
A belated thank you for the replies to my question about running
Witango
on Mac Leopard last week.
I guess the quick summary is that I dont want to go there. I do
not
need to run on Leopard.
So I guess my real question is what is the best Mac setup to run
Witango?
Basically, I have a truly archaic Tango setup working now.
(Tango 2
running on WebStar 4 on OS 9, talking to a Butler database server
running on OS 8). It is all on prehistoric hardware, that has
been
running forever. But its tolerable performance, and its been
working
but the hardware is starting to die. I was going to do the
upgrade to Tango 3 when it came out, but the early
releases were pretty buggy, so I put it off.. and off.. ;-)
I again
started to work on upgrading it about 5 years ago, but hit some
major
changes in business, and the old Tango stuff was working, so it
fell to
the bottom of the priority list.
I need to get it moved to something more modern. I dont need to
change
the functionality, I just want to be able to run it on new
hardware that
can keep it all working for a while longer. Maybe when the new
hardware
becomes unsupportable, there will be other options for keeping
it going
or the time and priority to rewrite it.
I still don't have a huge amount of time right now to throw at
this, so
the goal is a simple and reliable solution. I do have some end
of year
money if I can buy something to make it easier.
I REALLY want to stick with Mac hardware and OS on this if at
all possible.
Thus, 3 issues.. database, server, and studio.
Database.. seems like lots of options. mySQL seems easy and
widely
used. I have already gotten all the data exported out of Butler
and done
trial imports into mySQL and that seems to work fine. If some
other DB
worked better, and was not too expensive, that would be fine,
but I dont
want to get caught in the proprietary and out of business trap
again,
like I did with Butler (Butler was a good option at the time).
For Witango, I have collected various versions along the way, so
I have
copies of Pervasive 3.5 and 2000, as well as Witango 5.0, and
can buy
5.5 if needed. I already tried porting the old .qry files and
I can
use 3.5 to convert the old 2.x files to a .taf and then 5.5 demo
version
was able to read the 3.5 files. I can run any of the above
software, and I can do OS 10.3 or 10.4, PPC
or Intel. JDBC or ODBC. And no problem to buy drivers if needed.
The critical part of this is for internal use only and sits
behind a
good firewall, so security issues with old OS versions are not a
major
problem.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Bob
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when we know much about something but nothing works,
and practice when everything works but nobody knows why."
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