[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What is the best OS for installing Evergreen-ILS?

[Jason Stephenson]

Quoting Wolf Halton <wolf.halton at gmail.com>:

> Jason,
>
> Standing on the shoulders of those who made the install targets distributed
> with EG2.1, I hacked together my own additions to target Ubuntu 11.10.  It
> seemed to work alright except for shoe-horning in Postgresql-9.1. I am sure
> it is more trouble than it is worth to do this for production.  I am
> planning to do something like that again working from an alpha of EG on the
> Ubuntu 12.03 LTS Alpha Flight.  It remains to be seen if I can do it, but
> at least working toward the next LTS version, I will not be doing something
> totally useless.

Well, now you're drifting into dev-list territory, but let me share a  
suggestion that the general community might also find useful.

Rather than using an alpha tar ball (2.2alpha1, I assume), I'd suggest  
you install Evergreen and OpenSRF from git clones of the master  
branches. It is much easier to keep up with changes that way and  
updates are a snap. Learning to use git is practically a requirement  
if you want to join the developer community, even just to work on  
installation instructions for a new distro/release.

Git makes it super easy to share your patches/diffs with other  
developers who can try them out, and then get them merged into the  
main repository.

HtH,
Jason

/me runs off to investigate adding additional VMs on his development host.


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