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

[Paul Libbrecht]

I have finally uploaded my changed instructions.
Thanks to proof.

paul

PS: curriki list where are you?

Le 31-mai-08 à 00:46, Paul Libbrecht a écrit :

> 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?
>
> 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?
>
> Should I try to update the installation instructions or are there  
> enhancements to my procedure?
> I'm pretty happy with this adventure.... I could, right away, record  
> a podcast.
>
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