Since I had so many people asking me to explain what I did, and following Vladimir's suggestion, I wrote a little "How To"
which you can enjoy here:
http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?XindiceProjectPages
Thanks for the document. Here are some remarks:
- start from the hypothesis that the Xindice release is valid. The user shouldn't be required to retrieve Xindice from CVS in order to make it work
- how to build Xindice should be described in another document. One task per how-to, otherwise there's too many repetitions.
- "The reason for this is that, as of this writing, none of the 3 pre-built .zip or .tar.gz [distributions] (jar, war, src) are complete. In particular, you won't be able to build Xindice from the src distribution because it's missing the config directory and maybe other stuff..."
The goal is not to state that there is a problem, but to fix it. I know it takes much more time to fix a problem but that's how you can improve things. Anyway we know that the release doesn't work. If someone wants to take the next step and fix the release, he's welcome.
It's also my first "how to" so it may be very confusing and difficult to understand. I tried to be as clear as possible.
It's a good start. Just be more focused and take the opportunity to fix things. Xindice has so many problems, it's very likely that you are right when you find something's broken :-)
I spent the last 4 hours writing the "how to" as a humble way to contribute to this project which I think is very cool and useful
and has a great future.
if everyone just invested an afternoon to improve the project I'm sure we will be much further than we are now. So thanks for showing the way.
-Vladimir
-- Vladimir R. Bossicard www.bossicard.com
