Hello;
I have an installer that combines everything in one installer. It has been tested on windows, redhat linux, suse linux, ubuntu linux, and various other OSs. Since there was already an installer for OS X I didnt include OS X support. It should work but I have never tried it.
The installer installs WOLips, Wonder, WebObjects, and a few other things (like a fix to allow auto open in browser on windows and unix platforms. The installer performs all of the configuration. It probably does need to be updated to support newer versions of Eclipse, I believe it installs 3.4 but I wont swear to that. Been awhile since I have had to modify it.
It is available at
http://web.me.com/pccdonl/wo.jar. To run the installer you need to have java installed on your machine and type in java -jar wo.jar. Then follow the instructions, you should have a fully operational installation after it completes.
What the installer does is download all the separate pieces from all the different locations (Apple, Wonder, WOLips, Eclipse, etc) and installs them for you in a single installer.
Don
On Dec 6, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
I was setting up a new SL dev environment, and just to see what the initial installation and setup procedure would be like for a complete newbie on SL, I looked on the wiki for instructions for the simplest possible path to new installation on a virgin Snow Leopard.
It seems that really, a newbie would probably be confused and would probably struggle. :-(
After installing WebObjects 5.4.3 using Apple's dmg installer and then installing the "All In One" Eclipse/WOLips installer from Jeremy's .mac page (since the sisu download was slow as molasses with an est time of 1 day+!), I then hit a roadblock, getting an error when launching Eclipse after running Jeremy's installer.
" An Error has occurred"
" See the log file ~/.eclipse/...../blahblah.log"
That error log file is full of "missing required bundle" messages.
Anyway, just FYI, I don't have time for troubleshooting this now .... I am doing my usual 3.4.2 download and install/setup the manual way.
Since Jeremy is not working in WO anymore and this is AIO (All In One) installer is clearly broken for install on a virgin OS X Snow Leopard box, we might want to just discontinue the all-in-one installer and just go write a concise "WebObjects Developer Quick Start Guide" for newbies .......so I started a wiki page on this and will work on completing it as I get time. Any thoughts on that? Should I wipe all references on the wiki to the AIO?
If we are ever going to get new devs to come to WebObjects, we need to have a working quick start. Any dev worth his salt should be comfortable on the command line, so maybe a bash install script that downloads and installs various bits and configures everything might be the better route. Any opinions on that?
BTW, I went to use the WOInstaller.jar initially and thinking that a newbie would want standard install paths, I set the WOInstaller.jar target as "/", but got an error saying System directory already exists. Should the WOInstaller.jar's CPIO class be changed to just overwrite existing files? Does that "overlay" directory paths (aka merge eith existing files if named differently, or does it realyl "replace" existing directories (ie., wiping them out)?
Anyway, this is just some meandering thoughts / discussion before I leave off the "How would a newbie WO dev fare on getting started" for now and go do some work.
Regards, Kieran
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