[Documentation] Installers for big-bang/trunk (was Re: [Documentation] Configuration stabilized in trunks)

[Stefan Zoerner <st...@labeo.de>]

Stefan Zoerner wrote:
> I have started to move and revise the Basic Users's Guide

My plan is to complete a first version of the Basic User's Guide for the 
2.0 version this year, because the next weeks I have some time due to 
holidays.

Unfortunately, the installers in trunk do not compile, because they use 
the old StartupConfiguration style.

Is it possible to fix this until Xmas? My skills are unfortunately not 
sufficient.

I can do other parts of the guide first (and other tasks as well), but 
the description of the installation for various OS is important for 
newbies.

Fixing in bigbang branch would be enough for me. Basically, I just need 
to figure out how a binary download version of ApacheDS 2.0 will look 
like. For instance to test the different configuration tasks with a 
fresh installation.

Thanks in advance,
     Stefan

Re: [Documentation] Installers for big-bang/trunk (was Re: [Documentation] Configuration stabilized in trunks)

[Stefan Zoerner <st...@labeo.de>]

Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:
>> Unfortunately, the installers in trunk do not compile, because they 
>> use the old StartupConfiguration style.
>>
>> Is it possible to fix this until Xmas? My skills are unfortunately not 
>> sufficient.
> Ok, consider it done :)

Thanks Emmanuel!

I must correct myself a bit: the installers project in bigbang has been 
fixed and compiles. It seems that the merge of this part to trunk has 
not taken place.

Anyway, an "mvn install" in project "installers" is successful (some 
warnings) but does not create any installer. Perhaps I am missing something.

Chris? Thanks in advance.

Stefan

Re: [Documentation] Installers for big-bang/trunk (was Re: [Documentation] Configuration stabilized in trunks)

[Stefan Zoerner <st...@labeo.de>]

Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately, the installers in trunk do not compile, because they 
>> use the old StartupConfiguration style.
>>
>> Is it possible to fix this until Xmas? My skills are unfortunately not 
>> sufficient.
> Ok, consider it done :)
>>

This is just a little note that I was able to create a Win32 native 
installer from the bigbang branch, which sucessfully installed ApacheDS, 
set up a windows service etc, and the server starts and talks to the 
outside.

I will use this version to document configuration changes (new 
server.xml style), if relevant to the Basic User's Guide (which I plan 
to update for the 2.0 first).

For redoing the Open Group certification tests for the upcoming 2.0, the 
apacheds-noarch installer would be nice. Unfortunately, this one does 
not build. "mvn install" is successful, but there is a warning like

[WARNING] Attempting to build MavenProject instance for Artifact of 
type: jar; constructing POM artifact instead.

The build states "succesful". but the resulting jar 
apacheds-noarch-installer-1.5.2-SNAPSHOT.jar is only 14 kB.

Do I miss something here?

Anyway, for my documentation task, the native installers will do.

Greetings,
     Stefan

Re: [Documentation] Installers for big-bang/trunk (was Re: [Documentation] Configuration stabilized in trunks)

[Emmanuel Lecharny <el...@gmail.com>]

Stefan Zoerner wrote:
> Stefan Zoerner wrote:
>> I have started to move and revise the Basic Users's Guide
>
> My plan is to complete a first version of the Basic User's Guide for 
> the 2.0 version this year, because the next weeks I have some time due 
> to holidays.
Just great !
>
> Unfortunately, the installers in trunk do not compile, because they 
> use the old StartupConfiguration style.
>
> Is it possible to fix this until Xmas? My skills are unfortunately not 
> sufficient.
Ok, consider it done :)
>
> I can do other parts of the guide first (and other tasks as well), but 
> the description of the installation for various OS is important for 
> newbies.
>
> Fixing in bigbang branch would be enough for me. Basically, I just 
> need to figure out how a binary download version of ApacheDS 2.0 will 
> look like. For instance to test the different configuration tasks with 
> a fresh installation.
Thanks a lot Stefan. If you have any kind of problem while writing the 
documentation, just ping us : we will urgently fix the bug so that you 
can make progress. Documentation is as important as the code, maybe more 
... (nobody read the code, when a few people read the doc. Yes, this is 
not an urban legend !)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>     Stefan
>
>


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