Hi,
I'm attempting to determine if Rave is a good fit for a project. To that
end, after playing with the demo, I tried bootstrapping the vanilla
portal as per these instructions:
http://rave.apache.org/documentation/rave-extensions.html
with the plan of slowly adding on functionality. I ran into several
issues, though.
First, apologies for not providing detailed logs and such. I can if
desired, but I think these directions are clear enough to duplicate the
issues, and I didn't deviate from the docs much at all.
I checked out and built the 0.19-SNAPSHOT. I then checked out the
vanilla repository. Vanilla depends on 0.15-SNAPSHOT, which was my first
hurdle. I upgraded the dependency to 0.19-SNAPSHOT and that worked.
Next I ran into issues where the standard user service didn't compile
under 0.19. I removed this plus the tests, so I can't say if this caused
the final problem I experienced. Figured I didn't need the service since
the demo worked, and I could add extras if I needed them.
Finally I ran cargo, and received a huge exception with at least one
other as its cause. I'd include it here, but it's pages upon pages upon
pages of output.
It looks like the Vanilla portal hasn't been updated to 0.19-SNAPSHOT,
or even 0.18, and I'm guessing that any developer who tries will run
into the same series of problems I did. Is there a better course of
action than what I did, or is there a new recommended procedure?
Also, I'm a bit confused about the vanilla portal's creation of two
rather than one project. I understand that the portal creates user
accounts, a default gadget store, etc. and uses Shindig as a gadget
container. Is there any reason Shindig comes as a separate project in
the vanilla portal? Is it so you can override Shindig pages in your own
portal? I'm very new to Maven, vastly preferring Gradle, so I'm not
familiar with how the war overlay stuff works. It'd be nice if someone
has a Gradle version of the vanilla project, but my tentative research
suggests it doesn't do overlays, so I suspect it's out.
Thanks, and please let me know if I need to provide detailed logs after all.
