[xwiki-devs] my attempt at building a development curriki

[Ludovic Dubost]

Paul Libbrecht wrote:
> Hello fellow developers,
>
> I followed
>   http://curriki.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/InstallationInstructions
> building with maven 2.0.9 on MacOSX to get curriki running on a 
> development machine.
>
> - building went very fine
> - tried changing things in xwiki.cfg but the indicated property is not 
> there and xwiki.cfg contains an amount of "undefined" values, 
> importantly the encoding and default-Skin among others. I could add 
> each of the missing properties (i.e. the properties used in xwiki.cfg 
> generation) by adding sibblings of the element 
> <xwikiCfgEditCommentMandatory>. Similarly, I could add the dependency 
> on our postgres driver by enriching the dependencies in this pom.xml, 
> and I could add a few properties which seemed not correct in xwiki.cfg 
> in the xwikiCfgAdditionalProperties element.
> I also activated superadmin... the indicated admin password didn't 
> work there I think.
>
> - changing the hibernate.cfg.xml I could do as well, but it should be 
> said not to change the one in target... since it gets overriddent at 
> every build, but the one in web/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF
>
> At the end I got, with two changed files, a webapp that seems to match 
> my expectations and which actually started. Ideally, these changes 
> should happen in an extra file... is there space for this? Something 
> such as ~/build.properties in maven-1?
>
I think there are some steps but this would need the help for our maven 
specialists..
Any hint ? The questions is, if I'm right, how to change xwiki.cfg or 
hibernate config stuff locally ?

> After changing catalina.sh to bump memory, I could import the xar 
> (which I built as well).
> There I got stuck because I had to put albatross and not toucan as 
> default and base skins.
> After that I could import the xar and it started looking like curriki.
>
> The log showed an amount of errors which I've ignored thus far.
>
> I concluded with the three manual steps... are they here to stay?
Yes... because we don't have a procedure currently at import for pages 
requiring programming rights.
Another step is working around a bug which I could not find the cause for.

>
> Should I try to update the installation instructions or are there 
> enhancements to my procedure?
Yes definitively.. I would add a new page: "how to change config params 
or the database to mysql or postgres"

> I'm pretty happy with this adventure.... I could, right away, record a 
> podcast.
>
> paul
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