Getting Dspace up and running is a bit of a handful. The difficulty is mostly due to the fact that it is Java based, (In my opinion anyway) Every different distro has a different way to setup the prerequisites so a standard install guideline won't be very useful. The following are the key points required to get Dspace up and going on a FreeBSD system.
Sometimes it would be great to run SaskScript if you have a new database or collection activated in your SFX knowledge base. The only problem is there is no simple way of resolving one single target with SaskScript . SaskScript is an all or nothing deal if you use the GET style resolving where it queries your SFX server live to get the data. I've put together a little app that will do the MANUAL style resolving of one or two particular targets.
Subversion is a great utility that will make code development a lot easier. Basically it is a repository that keeps track of the versions of files and allows for many people to simulatenously work on one project. There might be some top heavy work at the begining but it is well worth it. Everything is packaged nicely for Ubuntu so there really isn't much work. This install will put absolutely no security measures on the repository so use cautiously. The base install only allows for command line access to the repository so we'll also look at putting a web GUI on top of if.
Nothing is worse then having to learn a new paradigm of development. I guess I have spoiled with the realitive simplicity of the LAMP stack. Tar Ball... MySQL database... Web Based installation.
For this probject I needed to get Ruby on Rails going to power Library A La Carte. I haven't been introduced to rails in the slightest so this is a from scratch install.
Getting Dspace up and running is a bit of a handful. The difficulty is mostly due to the fact that it is Java based, (In my opinion anyway) Every different distro has a different way to setup the prerequisites so a standard install guideline won't be very useful. The following are the key points required to get Dspace up and going on a FreeBSD system.
Nothing is worse then having to learn a new paradigm of development. I guess I have spoiled with the realitive simplicity of the LAMP stack. Tar Ball... MySQL database... Web Based installation.