[Building Sakai] Sakai tool installer

[Steven Githens]

On 03/22/2010 10:55 AM, Matthew Jones wrote:
>
> 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)
>

Hi Matt,

Where is the code for your installer work so far?

Cheers,
Steve


> 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto:dlhaines at umich.edu>
>
>
>
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