[Building Sakai] DRAFT: Installing git on Mac OS X

[Steven Githens]

That's probably fine. Though it kind of makes it sound like you are a 
bad person ( honestly, I've been pretty happy with my click install 
version of git when I have to use OS X ).

I just wish our quick start was quicker, for something that is 
essentially just a java project people are going to load into Eclipse.

For instance on the K2 Getting started page couldn't we just say:

git clone git://github.com/ieb/open-experiments.git
cd open-experiments/slingtests/osgikernel # etc etc.

I'm a big fan of people having ( github | bitbucket | launchpad ) 
accounts, but when I want to try out someones project I really just want 
to check it out. 

I think it's good that we have these instructions for macports, and 
github, and whatever else, but I don't they should preclude fast 
instructions for people who just want to get the code and build it.  I 
think it's just a matter of providing relative documentation for folks 
who wish to do different amounts of customization.

-s

Speelmon, Lance Day wrote:
> Okay see if this satisfies:
>
>
>       Precompiled Binaries
>
> For those of you that do not have the patience to experience the 
> magical goodness of MacPorts, I might suggest downloading a 
> precompiled package: http://git-scm.com/download.
>
>
>
> Lance Speelmon
> Scholarly Technologist
>
> On Oct 12, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Steven Githens wrote:
>
>> Probably still worth linking too though, since it's listed on their page 
>> for OS X, which makes it seems 'official like'.  I agree that macports 
>> is nice and I've used it to get The Gimp and Dia, but it seems to take a 
>> really long time, which might be too long for someone who just wants to 
>> check out 3akai and use eclipse.
>>
>> http://git-scm.com/download
>>
>> -s
>>
>> Speelmon, Lance Day wrote:
>>> Yes - it may be easier, but in my experience these 3rd party 
>>> packages tend to not be well supported over time and never have the 
>>> official blessing of the parent project.  Over the years of trying 
>>> to rely on these kinds of packages, I have been sorely disappointed 
>>> as they tend to be slow to provide updates.  It makes it hard to 
>>> write documentation that can stand the test of time.  MacPorts has 
>>> been there for me from day one and has been very consistent.  Not to 
>>> mention, you only need to learn it once to get access to over 12,000 
>>> applications ported to OSX.  L
>>>
>>>
>>> Lance Speelmon
>>> Scholarly Technologist
>>>
>>> On Oct 12, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> It looks ok, but you should really mention this which is much much
>>>> much easier (and what I use).
>>>> http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/
>>>>
>>>> -AZ
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Speelmon, Lance Day 
>>>> <lance at indiana.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If you have time and interest, I would appreciate your review of a 
>>>>> new wiki
>>>>> page:
>>>>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/KERNDOC/Installing+git
>>>>> Thanks, L
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Lance Speelmon
>>>>> Scholarly Technologist
>>>>>
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