[Building Sakai] Sakai tool installer

[Matthew Jones]

Hi Dave,

I have a proposal for the conference that I'd submitted for discussing how
the Michigan (CTools) scripts semi-automatically build customized versions
of Sakai. I also planned a followup BOF to discuss better future ways of
performing the build. I believe this topic (of easier contrib tool installs)
would be discussed at this BOF.

This is an issue (easier building of tools) that I've talked (ranted) with
Anthony Whyte about *many* times in the past. We considered the possibility
of a web installer interface where you'd select some options and download a
drop-in package to a script that an installer would run locally. Some of
what's been happening lately relating to independent releases and
core-deploy has made installing many contrib tools easier. (for 2.7.x) But
only a small set of projects are part of this group, and it still doesn't
give you an easy workflow to build and include projects from source.

This installer is something I've been (slowly) working on piecemeal, and
something that I believe we'll need to build 2.7.x locally. This will be
needed to easily and automatically make local modifications against many
tools. (and also have a correct nightly build on the QA server) Something as
easy as a "gentoo emerge" or a "pear install" would be really nice, and it
would just require a install script and a configuration file. (which we'd
either hopefully be able to automatically generate and publish)

However, I don't know if anyone else is interested. ;)

-Matthew

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:42 AM, David Haines <dlhaines at umich.edu> wrote:

> Is anyone interested in a BOF at the conference on building a Sakai tool
> "installer"?  This functionality has been suggested for years but never has
> happened.  We should figure out if it is easy and then do it, or figure out
> how to make it easy.
>
> The basic hope is that someone could, at worse, create a text file that
> lists appropriate tools and the installer would assemble a Sakai image that
> could be deployed into Tomcat.  An imaginary example is below:
>
> Sakai-base-2.7.3
> blogwow-1.2.3
> disabler-tool-0.5
> autojoin-umich-0.1
>
> Even with a UI as boring as a text editor this would make creating a Sakai
> installation easier.
>
> - Dave
>
> David Haines
> CTools Developer
> Digital Media Commons
> University of Michigan
> dlhaines at umich.edu
>
>
>
>
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