On Dec 9, 2010, at 2:29 PM, John Larson wrote:

> You're a swell guy Chuck. One of these years I'm going to go to WOWODC just 
> to buy you a beer. If you'd rather, I'll just ship you a case so as not 
> impede your way home. 

You could probably use it yourself after today.  :-)


> I'm on the train going home now so I can't be certain, but it does appear as 
> if I just completely missed the wotaskd bundle.

It does not need that bundle, just a path to that jar.  I am not certain that 
it even needs that jar, it might just need wo.bootstrapjar to point to some 
file, any file as a flag that this is a modern WO install.  There are some... 
interesting bits of code in woproject.  :-)


>  Once I'm home I move all that into place and try again.   Too little sleep, 
> too much cold medicine. I'm pretty sure that that's it. 

Let's hope!


Chuck


> On Dec 9, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Chuck Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Dec 9, 2010, at 12:41 PM, John Larson wrote:
>> 
>>> I've just set up a new machine using what I thought was a standard kit for 
>>> setting up machines, but am totally stumped here.  On my new machine 
>>> everything appears to build fine, but the frameworksBaseURL isn't coming 
>>> through to the command line.  No errors, it just doesn't come through, nor 
>>> does the bit about "-classpath WOBootstrap.jar."  If I run ant with the 
>>> -verbose argument, everything is totally different between the new machine 
>>> and a working machine.  
>>> 
>>> Here are some examples:
>>> - The working machine shows it doing a chmod on the built files and the new 
>>> machine doesn't.  
>>> - The new machine makes a variable called HOMEROOT, the old machine never 
>>> spits out anything about HOMEROOT.  
>>> - The new machine has a routine to do "path-to-drive-letter substitution" 
>>> on the command line to shorten it if it is too long, but the working 
>>> machine doesn't.
>>> 
>>> There's gobs of these, it's like it is completely different.  But I'm 
>>> hoping that maybe someone who actually wrote it will recognize what I'm 
>>> talking about :-)
>> 
>> Check this:
>> 
>> saskatoon:~ chuck$ grep bootstrap ~/Library/Application\ 
>> Support/WOLips/wolips.properties
>> wo.bootstrapjar=/System/Library/WebObjects/JavaApplications/wotaskd.woa/WOBootstrap.jar
>> 
>> wo.bootstrapjar needs to point to a file that is actually there.  If not, 
>> you get a WO 5.2 (or 5.1?) build.
>> 
>> 
>> Chuck
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> This seems like a classpath problem to me and that ant is picking up a 
>>> different WOApplication, but I'm stumped.  I thought the only file that 
>>> could be involved was 
>>> Eclipse35/plugins/org.objectstyle.wolips.woproject.and_3.5.6066/lib/woproject.jar,
>>>  but they are the same and I've copied and duplicated it between the 
>>> machines a dozen times.  If I remove that file, nothing works, so I know it 
>>> isn't picking up another WOApplication somewhere else in the classpath.  
>>> The verbose output just looks so different it looks like completely 
>>> different versions, but I haven't downloaded anything new!
>>> 
>>> I don't set new machines up very often, but even so, I've never had this 
>>> happen.  Any ideas where I can look for clues?  It's WO 5.3, Eclipse 3.5, 
>>> and everything else works: build, split, tar, etc.  If I manually add the 
>>> WOFrameworksBaseURL in the script then the app works fine, if I don't the 
>>> images, css files, etc. don't get linked to correctly, as you'd expect.
>>> 
>>> Thanks again,
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