[Resending similar mail after bounce, apologies for those who got duplicates. This is a follow-up to some prior discussion on installation problems with the Halo extension.]
On Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008, Markus Nitsche wrote: > Hi Alex, > > > > the file you are probably looking for is > <http://downloads.sourceforge.net/halo-extension/smw%2B-1.1.zip?modtime=121 >0 945439&big_mirror=0> smw+-1.1.zip, which contains all the files you need > for installing the halo extension on top of an existing SMW installation. > Unfortunately, there are no installation instructions yet for the Halo > Extensions only. There are only instructions for an entire installation > from scratch (like the one you mentioned), so you have to extract the > information from there (especially concerning LocalSettings). Given these issues, I think the use of the name "SMW+" requires some clarification here. It gives the impression that the project is especially closely related to SMW, and I understand that it may be surprising for users to find incompatibilities or update problems then. To clarify: no members of the SMW Project are currently involved in/affiliated with the Halo Project or with the commercial activities around "SMW+". We also have had no influence on this choice of name. The SMW Project would of course welcome Halo to stay available as an SMW extension. Halo's current mode of distribution, however, is more that of a fork than that of an extension. Looking at Halo related webpages, one gets the impression that the relationship to the SMW Project is rather hidden there already (see e.g. [1][2]). So SMW+ users have little chance of getting in touch with the SMW community, and there is the very real danger of a fork and community split. I think it is fair to warn our users of the possibility of this fork, since switching to Halo then may have consequences for future software upgrades (you may end up being in either the SMW or in the Halo branch). Of course SMW has no desire for that to happen, and it may be possible to improve cooperation between the projects. By the way, looking at the SMW+ pages now, I also acknowledge that we may need a PR manager to create fancy things like that flyer [3] for SMW too! Volunteers can send me an email. -- Markus [1] http://shop.ontoprise.com/index.php/Wiki-Download.html [2] http://ontoprise.de/index.php?id=241 [3] http://ontoprise.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Flyer_EN/Flyer_SMWplus_en.pdf -- Markus Krötzsch Semantic MediaWiki http://semantic-mediawiki.org http://korrekt.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > If you have any issues with the installation, please refer to the Help > forum of the Halo Extension which is available here: > > http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=743538 > > > > Regards, > > Markus > > > > _____ > > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von > Alex Le Bek > Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 13:01 > An: semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Betreff: [SMW-devel] Halo Installation - help > > > > Hi, > > > > Almost too embarassed to ask but I want to install the SMW Halo extension > and have found it tricky to understand quite what I am to install! The > sourceforge download for smwhalo-1.0 has alot of stuff other than a Halo > extension directory some of which refers to mysql and smw extension. I can > see that there is a bundled download for php/mysql/mw but I just want Halo > to add to existing sm wikis. The unpacked 8MB (smwhalo-1.0.zip) just seems > not right.... and I don't understand which bits from > http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Halo_Extension_1.0_Installation I should use. > All other extensions so far have been easy so I can only think I have > misunderstood something here - is Halo not an extension in the way that > Semantic Drilldown etc is? > > > > Thanks > > Alex -- Markus Krötzsch Semantic MediaWiki http://semantic-mediawiki.org http://korrekt.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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