2009/9/25 Andrew Savory <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > So, with help from Scott (thanks, Scott!) I managed to get wookie building, > and up and running on my machine. We've got a few hiccups for "first run" > folks, I thought I'd jot them down here prior to formalizing them in the > issue tracker. Feedback / discussion welcome, before I create the issues.
Excellent - thanks > - Getting started docs > > The three readmes contain a few errors and confusing wording (very much > describes a packaged release, doesn't reflect what you get from CVS > checkout). Could also clarify download URLs for third-party dependencies we > can't ship. I have fixes for at least readme_tomcat. I'd suggest not focusing on these. I'm working on a standalone developer version. This would require a full rewrite of those documents. So, if the current readme files are focused on packaged distributions that is a good thing as they can be adapted accordingly. Once I've fully tested my standalone version the readme will be: - install Apache Ant - checkout wookie source - do "ant" - http://localhost:8080/wookie In fact, the patch against https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WOOKIE-26 does just that. There has been some changes against trunk since that patch was created, if you try it and find it can't be applied let me know I'll regenerate it as I am keeping my version synced with trunk. > - Build > > The ant build has lots of hard-coded paths; we need to work on tidying that > up and also depending more on semi-standard environment variables (such as > $TOMCAT_HOME) and perhaps add some properties files for configurable builds I've rebuilt the build system in the above patch as well. So no need to fix the current one. It should work on any machine now - I'm in the process of installing a completely new machine so may get to test this at some point over the weekend. > - Run > > Out of the box it's not too clear what to do - could be addressed by more > docs, or having some default widget(s) running? See above. > That's all for now ... Seems we need to apply and test https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WOOKIE-26 If only we could get the code into our SVN, then we could branch it and try this patch. Scott - any news on the CCLA? Ross
