[Sputnik-list] Installing sputnik under windows,xavante

[Yuri Takhteyev]

First, while I was writing this I started thinking that it looked way too
complicated.  Then André pointed out that most of that complexity could be
avoided by using the new "CGILua Application" framework.  I should also just
run make_data_dir.lua myself, and include its output with the download.
There really isn't much reason why the user has to run it themselves.   With
that in place, it would be just a matter of installing Kepler, then copying
sputnik.lua to "apps" and everything else to "lua" directory.

Also, as I thought about it more, I realized that while I've removed use of
colons in page names, they are still used in version ids.  So, this will
cause problems on Windows.

So, give me a week or so and I will try to fix both issues and hopefully
make a somewhat more Windows-friendly build.

  - yuri

On Nov 7, 2007 8:58 AM, Yuri Takhteyev <yuri at sims.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> I am not 100% sure, since I don't know how Kepler files are laid out
> on Windows, but, let me try to explain what it does, which will
> hopefully allow you to map it to Windows.
>
> There are two different types of .lua files:
>
> 1. sputnik.lua is a "LuaScript" and its location is specified through
> sputnik_config.lua and cgilua/config.lua
>
> 2. All other lua files, including those in "dependencies," are modules
> and they go wherever .lua modules go on Windows, presumably to
> Kepler_dir/lua.
>
> #2 should be simple enough.  #1 is a bit tricky, since unlike normal
> CGILua applications, the location of spunik.lua gets "hardcoded" into
> cgilua/config.lua.
>
> I provide a file called cgilua.config.lua which needs to be copied to
> cgialu/config.lua in your installation.  It has the following line:
>
>    cgilua.script_path = sputnik_config.SCRIPT_PATH
>
> This line makes CGILua always use the file specified by
> sputnik_config.SCRIPT_PATH instead of using the standard CGILua logic
> for deciding what to file to run.  So, you would need to make sure
> that at the end of the day your "sputnik_config" module sets
> SCRIPT_PATH to the path to your "sputnik.lua".
>
> On UNIX sputnik_config.lua is generated on by running
> make_config_file.lua.  The relevant lines in build_sputnik are
>
> $SPUTNIK_DIR/bin/lua5.1 make_config_file.lua
> $SPUTNIK_DIR/etc/kepler/1.1/kepler_init.lua $SPUTNIK_DIR
> cp new_sputnik_config.lua $SPUTNIK_DIR/share/lua/5.1/sputnik_config.lua
>
> So, make_config_file.lua takes two parameters: a path to your
> kepler_init.lua and your installation directory.  It generates a file
> called "new_sputnik_config.lua", which you need to copy as
> "sputnik_config.lua" in the same directory as all of your other Lua
> files.
>
> However, maybe it would be simpler on Windows to just generate the
> sputnik_config.lua file automatically.   When you edit
> sputnik_config.lua, look for the following two values:
>
> SCRIPT_PATH = "$script_path"
> SECRET_CODE = "$secret_code"
>
> The $... parts are slots that make_config_file.lua will fill in.
> Instead of running make_config_file.lua, you can just put the absolute
> path to your sputnik.lua in SCRIPT_PATH and some random string of
> digits in SECRET_CODE.  E.g.:
>
> SCRIPT_PATH = "c:/my_sputnik_dir/sputnik.lua"
> SECRET_CODE = "1982307498172309841720938"
>
> Then just copy sputnik_config.lua to where all of your other lua modules
> go.
>
> Does this help at all or does it only make it more confusing?  The
> problem is that I don't have Windows at hand to try this on, so I have
> to make guesses about how Kepler might work on Windows.
>
>  - yuri
>
> On Nov 7, 2007 6:16 AM, Georgios Petsagourakis <petsagouris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I am a bit confused with setting up sputnik under Windows and Xavante.
> > I do I need to move all the modules in the Kepler_dir/lua ?
> > or is there another way I have missed to install it easier?
> >
> > --
> > Best Regards,...
> > George Petsagourakis
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>
>
>
> --
> Yuri Takhteyev
> Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley School of Information
> http://takhteyev.org/, http://www.freewisdom.org/
>



-- 
Yuri Takhteyev
Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley School of Information
http://takhteyev.org/, http://www.freewisdom.org/
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