Hi Fabio,
On Jul 1, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Fabio Mancinelli wrote:
On 06/30/2010 09:32 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 06/30/2010 01:15 PM, Ponder Muse wrote:
Hi,
I am interested in trying out xwiki concerto but I am unable to download the
installer jar from its website at
http://concerto.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/DownloadAndInstall.
Does anybody know what is the current state of the xwiki concerto project?
I understand that xwiki concerto was a research project that ran until
sometime in 2008 and I am interested in knowing what progress there's been
on it since then (if any). i.e. does the main xwiki project now maybe
include support for replication of xwiki content in a distributed
environment?
Any insight on this would be much appreciated!
The sources are available at
https://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/sandbox/concerto/ , a plain
mvn install should give you a ready-to-use file in
concerto-installer/target. There are no official releases of the project
yet, so you'll have to build it manually.
Actually this is not so easy because the artifacts needed for the
compilation are not anymore in the maven repository, so you will also
have to recompile XWiki artifacts by retrieving the required versions
using tags in the SVN repository. The version we targeted, if I am not
wrong, was XWiki 1.8.1
All versions are available, we don't delete them.
For ex for xwiki core:
http://maven.xwiki.org/releases/com/xpn/xwiki/platform/xwiki-core/
Thanks
-Vincent
For the rest, I mostly agree with what Sergiu said.
I still believe in P2P which is really a paradigm shift from
time-sharing and a better way for keeping the control of his data, but
business-wise it's not where the world is going right now, hence the
lack of real interest in those solutions.
- Fabio
P.S.: I might check if I can retrieve an pre-compiled installer from my
backups but I doubt I will be able to. It would be more interesting to
try to rebuild it using XWiki 1.8.1 or, better, update the pom.xml's in
order to target the latest XWiki distribution. I am pretty confident
that things will work even with more recent versions of XWiki because
the functionalities required by Concerto didn't change since then.