Trying Forrest 0.6

[Charles Palmer <ch...@dspdesign.com>]

Before I download one of the large 0.6 snapshots, can you tell me whether there is executable code in there, or whether I would have to go through a compilation process.

If the latter, then is this easy or difficult? I am not a s/w developer and my machine may not be set up for this.

Charles

Re: Trying Forrest 0.6

[Dave Brondsema <da...@brondsema.net>]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Charles Palmer wrote:

> I am using Win 2000.
>
> Will I see problems if I use the snapshots with "UNIX line-endings"?
>

Everything should work fine.  But if you open any of the files, depending
on your text editor (eg notepad has problems, but wordpad does not) files
may be all run together.

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Re: Trying Forrest 0.6

[Charles Palmer <ch...@dspdesign.com>]

I am using Win 2000.

Will I see problems if I use the snapshots with "UNIX line-endings"?

Re: Trying Forrest 0.6

[Charles Palmer <ch...@dspdesign.com>]

Team

Sorry for being an incompetant newbee (I'm actually very good at designing
computers, but s/w is not my specialtity)...

I downloaded a 0.6 snapshot, decompreessed it into c:\junk\forrest0.6 (no
offence...) then ran build.bat. I got a bunch of messages, including:

 "Compiling 29 source files to C:\junk\forrest0.6\forrest\build\classes
4 warnings" (this didn't sound so good...)

and "BUILD SUCCESSFUL" (but this seemed OK...)

I did my best to follow instructions, setting environment veriables as
instructed, so I now have:

FORREST_HOME=c:\junk\forrest0.6\forrest\src\core

and

PATH= (a bunch of stuff then:); c:\junk\forrest0.6\forrest\src\core\bin

Then finally failure... I type this, and get the response:

C:\>forrest -projecthelp

Apache Forrest.  Run 'forrest -projecthelp' to list options


Buildfile: c:\junk\forrest0.6\forrest\src\core\forrest.build.xml

BUILD FAILED
Basedir C:\" -Dforrest.home
c:\junk\forrest0.6\forrest\src\core -emacs -logger o
rg.apache.tools.ant.NoBannerLogger -projecthelp does not exist

Total time: 2 seconds

What's wrong?

Charles

Re: Trying Forrest 0.6

[David Crossley <cr...@apache.org>]

Charles Palmer wrote:
> You refer me to here: http://forrest.apache.org/build.html which seems to
> require me to first download and install Subversion (SVN), then use SVN to
> grab a copy of Forrest, then build it. Is that right?

That is one way to get the source (the best way).

> In which case what does this page http://forrest.apache.org/mirrors.cgi mean
> when it says this: "There are also compressed source snapshots that are
> built every 6 hours" (and links to some 41M byte .tar.gz files). Can I
> download one of these as an alternative to the SVN approach, or what?

That is correct. However, remember that it is a snapshot
in time. You get an exact copy of the whole of the Forrest
source tree. As we fix more issues and enhance the docs,
your copy will get out-of-date.

Get a snaphot for now, to experiment with. Then either wait
for the official release of 0.6 or get your local SVN
client installed.

Sounds like we need to tweak some doco.

(Oh, i don't know what operating system you are on, but the
files in the snapshot will have UNIX line-endings.)

> My
> network admin guy is on holiday and I don't want to go round installing more
> s/w on my machine than I have to - if I cock up and he has to dig me out I'm
> in trouble! Is installing SVN going to be trouble-free?

No-one is go to guarantee anything.

-- 
David Crossley

Re: Trying Forrest 0.6

[Charles Palmer <ch...@dspdesign.com>]

You refer me to here: http://forrest.apache.org/build.html which seems to
require me to first download and install Subversion (SVN), then use SVN to
grab a copy of Forrest, then build it. Is that right?

In which case what does this page http://forrest.apache.org/mirrors.cgi mean
when it says this: "There are also compressed source snapshots that are
built every 6 hours" (and links to some 41M byte .tar.gz files). Can I
download one of these as an alternative to the SVN approach, or what? My
network admin guy is on holiday and I don't want to go round installing more
s/w on my machine than I have to - if I cock up and he has to dig me out I'm
in trouble! Is installing SVN going to be trouble-free?

Charles

Re: Trying Forrest 0.6

[Dave Brondsema <da...@brondsema.net>]

Charles Palmer wrote:
> Before I download one of the large 0.6 snapshots, can you tell me 
> whether there is executable code in there, or whether I would have to go 
> through a compilation process.
>  
> If the latter, then is this easy or difficult? I am not a s/w developer 
> and my machine may not be set up for this.
>  
> Charles

There is a small amount of java code that needs to be compiled.  You 
need JDK 1.3+ installed (javac).

http://forrest.apache.org/build.html describes the build procedure (very 
simple).


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