Hello, Andreas -- If you'd like to help out with the testing, that would be great. The test plan is here:
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FCREPO/Fedora+3.7.0+-+Test+Plan Ideally, you would build and test Fedora on either Windows XP or 7 (Windows 7, preferably) using SQL Server as the backend database and Java 6 to build and run it. Then repeat the same tests on the same environment with Java 7. Clone the source from the 3.7.0-RC branch to run the tests: https://github.com/fcrepo/fcrepo/tree/3.7.0-RC The README file has instructions on how to build the source and run the tests. You'll want to run all the unit tests, then all four integration tests (configA, configB, configC, and configQ). https://github.com/fcrepo/fcrepo/blob/3.7.0-RC/README There are a few gotchas with building and running Fedora on Windows; I can work with you on those issues offline, if you run into problems. To get it to build and run using SQLServer, you'll need to make some changes to the codebase, as detailed https://wiki.duraspace.org/download/attachments/30221037/Interfacing_Fedora_with_Microsoft_SQL_Server.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1251970272018 Those instructions may be fairly out of date, so you may need to do some exploration and testing on your own to get it to all work. For extra credit, if you wanted to modify the code to implement support for SQLServer out of the box, that would be great. In which case, I'd recommend forking the fcrepo repository, creating a branch in your forked repo, then make and test your changes there. Once it's done, we can look at rolling it into the next Fedora 3 point release. There is some additional useful information here for contributing to Fedora in general: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FCREPO/Committer%27s+Guide However, progress on Fedora 4 continues, and Fedora 3 is facing a very finite lifespan. Depending on your own timelines, you may prefer to wait for Fedora 4 to come out, rather than investing a lot of effort in making Fedora 3 compatible with SQLServer. As I understand it, Fedora 4 will not have any RDBMS backend at all. I'll let the Fedora 4 project managers comment more on that. -- Scott On 09/04/2013 07:18 AM, Andreas Nef wrote: > Hi Scott > > After yet another request of one of our clients to do the fedora > installation for a coming project on MS SQL Server I'd like to raise at > least my voice not to drop this perspective completely. I have not done > installations on MS SQL so far, but given these several requests and > requirements of future projects I feel like I have to volunteer in this > field. > > I'm happy to get more inputs on how and what to test. Is MS SQL really > that uncommon for Fedora? Hard to believe, but the (lack of) responses > does indicate so. > > Please let me know what you'd expect me to do, I'm happy to participate > and keep the MS SQL line up. > > Andreas > > > > 2013/8/30 Scott Prater <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > We're entering the last set of tests of the next Fedora 3 point release. > On the agenda is to test Fedora 3 with SQLServer. SQLServer support > has never been a part of the official Fedora distribution, but the Idaho > National Laboratory did publish a guide for integrating SQLServer with > Fedora several years ago: > > > https://wiki.duraspace.org/download/attachments/30221037/Interfacing_Fedora_with_Microsoft_SQL_Server.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1251970272018 > > We're contemplating dropping SQLServer integration tests from the test > plan, but before making that call, I'd like to find out if there are any > SQLServer users out there who would benefit from tests of the latest > releases of Fedora with it. > > If there's no outcry from the community, we'll drop it from our test > plan. > > thanks, > > -- Scott > > -- > Scott Prater > Shared Development Group > General Library System > University of Wisconsin - Madison > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > 5-5415 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! > Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft > technologies > and advance your career. 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