Anton J Aylward wrote: > Matijs van Zuijlen said the following on 04/08/08 08:55 PM: >> Hi Anton, > > Hi, and thanks. No, realy, I'm grateful someone finally replied. I was > getting frustrated. (Still am actually!) > > This was my 4th or fifth post about problems with this version of Typo. > I'd tried upgrading my site first - MISTAKE! - and have a number of > posts about that. Perhaps you'd care to look back over them and comment > on that content as the experience was a bit different from this attempt > to install Typo on my laptop
Sorry, I never use the typo installer for my own site. The current_user method should be defined in vendor/plugins/typo_login_system/lib/login_system.rb. >> Ah, an rpm based distro. Probably you need to install the -dev package >> for libmysql as well. > > I really don't like this. > Why should I have to install an application development package just to > install Typo? Will I have to install a compiler and possibly YACC/LEX > as well. > > Please guys, this is a bit of a heavy load. Unfortunately, that's a result of Ruby's packaging system. Many people don't like that, including people who package software for the distros. Not much the typo developers can do about it though. > Is this set of dependencies (on the compiler etc) declared anywhere? The precise set of dependencies will depend on the distribution used. That said, some general hints might be a welcome addition to the wiki. > Why do I have to go though this if I only want to use Typo with sqlite3 That, I cannot answer :-). Looking at the source repository, I see that the dependency was changed at the same time the default database changed. >> The typo gem requires 'rails-app-installer', I'm guessing you need to >> install that gem. > > Is that dependency declared anywhere? > > Oh, right, let me guess, if I'd installed with the GEM it would have > dragged that dependency in. > > HA-BLOODY-HA-HA Well, once you go by the 'non-default' route, your on you own ;-). > My "other" blog is Wordpress & I didn't have this problem upgrading that. Well, there _was_ a whole thread on this mailing list recently about installing PHP (Worpress is written in that) vs Ruby & Rails, so I wont get into that :-): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04267.html > Originally preferred Typo to Wordpress, now I'm having my doubts. > I'm really disappointed in this "upgrade". When I started using Typo > two years ago (26/08/06 08:54 PM) I had none of these problems, neither > on my laptop nor on Dreamhost (once they got Ruby 1.8.4 up). It was the > slickness and ease of installation & configuration that impressed me > back them. It's a pity that changed. > PostScript: > > I just installed 'libmysql-devel' using urpmi, the normal and > recommended method, and 'gem install typo' still fails. Am I correct in assuming from your later mails that you managed to get this to work? > I seriously think you need to reconsider what it takes for an ordinary > non-development user to install Typo. I'm just visiting :-). Regards, Matijs.
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