[Building Sakai] Packing Sakai to Install on a Client and Customizing the MySQL Database

[lschwoob at mscd.edu]

Hi Noah,

Thank you! This is very helpful information.

Lisa Schwoob

----- Original Message -----
From: Noah Botimer <botimer at umich.edu>
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010 11:20 am
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Packing Sakai to Install on a Client and 
Customizing the MySQL Database
To: lschwoob at mscd.edu
Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org

> Check out SOLO:
> 
> 
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SOLO/Learning+offline+with+S
OLO
> 
> I'm not sure how active the work is, but there are a few groups in 
> South Africa who were involved with it originally. I think 
> Psybergate was doing the majority of the development and it 
> embedded SQLite rather than MySQL.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Noah
> 
> On Apr 8, 2010, at 9:46 AM, lschwoob at mscd.edu wrote:
> 
> > Good morning all,
> > 
> > I would like to know if anyone has ever tried to package Sakai 
> source 
> > code so that it works on a client as a stand-alone system. I 
> noted 
> > that documentation for packaging Sakai to run off a memory stick 
> > exists, however, I do not want to run from a memory stick. We 
> would be 
> > using this client Sakai installation for those users without 
> access to 
> > the Internet. I do realize that this sort of installation 
> violates the 
> > SOA philosophy. The operating system will be Unbuntu. 
> > 
> > My second question is if it is possible to add a custom MySQL 
> database 
> > to Sakai 2.6.2. If this cannot be done (and I believe it is 
> probably 
> > not recommended) has anyone had any experience with customizing 
> the 
> > tables in MySQL. I would like to know if anyone has ever had an 
> > instance of where they needed to customize the database tables 
> and 
> > what the outcome was. This is a very general question.
> > 
> > Thank you for your help!
> > 
> > Lisa Schwoob
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