[Building Sakai] Developing on OS X

[Adrian Fish]

Why do we all struggle so with Apple? It makes life as a Java developer 
particularly frustrating.

Brandon Davie wrote:
> Well, I have a nice clean install of Sakai 2.6.2 running on our new 
> (and first) production server. My goal for tomorrow is to get my Mac 
> and local subversion set up for development, but I have a couple 
> questions concerning that.
>
> After going over the documents for Sakai 2.6, I ended up installing 
> Java 1.5 on the production server. The issue is with the dev box; Snow 
> Leopard ships with Java 1.6. I’ve read an article on how to install 
> Java 1.5, but since Apple packages up its own Java I’m sure it’s not 
> identical to the production server (J2SE 5.0u22). Would this be a 
> problem? Here’s the article, if you’re curious:
> http://chxor.chxo.com/post/183013153/installing-java-1-5-on-snow-leopard
>
> My last concern is with MySQL. From the documentation, it looks like 
> only Sakai 2.7 and above supports MySQL 5.1, so I installed MySQL 5.0 
> on the production server for Sakai 2.6. Unfortunately the dev box has 
> MySQL 5.1 installed (and in use for other projects). Any pointers for 
> this? Can Sakai 2.6 use MySQL 5.1? If so, I’ll just go ahead and nuke 
> 5.0 and slap 5.1 on the production server since it’s not quite in use yet.
>
> I appreciate the help and of course the patience with the newbie :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Brandon Davie
>
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Lancaster University
Lancaster
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email: a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk

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