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

Wolf Halton wolf.halton at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 18:30:52 EST 2011


I have been learning to use git for local development. My own little
projects do not have but 1 contributor but it helps me keep track of
changes.

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On Nov 29, 2011 2:37 PM, "Jason Stephenson" <jstephenson at mvlc.org> wrote:

> 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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