[Building Sakai] Chat Tool

Mon Oct 3 04:14:45 PDT 2011

Hi Adrian,

Thank you for the reply. I'm still learning the ins and outs of
developing/modifying/adding new tools to Sakai. 

So I will do a checkout of the floating chat, followed by doing the
patch in the sakai source directory. Then I do mvn install sakai:deploy
after this? Then I will have my floating portal chat? I like it and
would definitely like to have it running on my instance.

Thanks again,
Nguni

On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 12:09 +0100, Adrian Fish wrote:
> I'll have a go ...
> 
> Patches in Sakai are based on Subversion diff files. If you check out 
> the Sakai source code, modify it and then type svn diff in the modified 
> directory, piping the output into a file called ngunis_changes.patch, 
> the file will detail the changes you made. Someone else can then take 
> that file and import the changes in their own copy of the Sakai source 
> code using the command:
> 
> patch -p0 < ngunis_changes.patch
> 
> The good thing about patching is that only certain areas of the target 
> file are modified, the rest stays the same as when you checked it out. 
> If you just replaced the target file completely with another version you 
> run the risk of getting an old, out of date source file.
> 
> Unless you code Sakai I suppose most of this will be making you scratch 
> your head. Don't, or you'll start going bald like me. I've attached the 
> patch file for you to have a play with.
> 
> First change into the root directory of your Sakai source code
> cd SAKAI_SRC
> 
> Then merge the patch in
> patch -p0 < floating_chat.patch
> 
> See how you go,
> 
> Cheers again,
> Adrian.
> 
> On 03/10/2011 11:53, Nkululeko Phakela wrote:
> > Hi Adrain,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. I will take a look. I'm not yet sure how patches
> > work in Sakai. Could you advise?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nguni
> >
> > On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 11:37 +0100, Adrian Fish wrote:
> >> Hi Nguni,
> >>
> >> We are running a version of the 2.9 chat on our 2.8.x at Lancaster. It's
> >> more or less the same.
> >>
> >> The EB service code is here:
> >>
> >> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/lancaster.ac.uk/sfcservice/trunk
> >>
> >> ... but you need patches for site.vm and the additional js files. I'll
> >> get a patch together and mail to the list later today.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Adrian.
> >>
> >> On 03/10/2011 09:10, Nkululeko Phakela wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I noticed on this site: http://nightly2.sakaiproject.org:8082/portal (it
> >>> is down now) that there is a facebook like chat. I want to incorporate
> >>> this chat tool into my sakai instance. I'm running 2.8.0 using tomcat
> >>> 5.5. Where can I find the source for this?
> >>>
> >>> Kind Regards,
> >>> Nguni
> >>>
> 

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Nkululeko Phakela 
Software Developer 
011 717 7167 
eLearning Support and Innovation (eLSI) 
Witwatersrand University 
Braamfontein, Johannesburg
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