Re: [GMG-Devel] 0.8.0 freeze!

[Jim Campbell]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015, at 10:16 AM, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> Jim Campbell writes:
> 
> > Hi. Thanks, ayleph!
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 6, 2015, at 01:37 AM, ayleph wrote:
> >> On 03/05/2015 10:38 PM, Jim Campbell wrote:
> >> > 
> >> > I was able to get the most recent stuff running on Centos 7, but had to
> >> > do some magical incantations to get things going. I took good notes,
> >> > though. Where would be the best spot for my notes?
> >> 
> >> Cool, thanks for helping test the latest code! Here are my suggestions
> >> of where to share your experiences.
> >> 
> >> If you encountered an error in the installation, check the MediaGoblin
> >> issue tracker [1] to see if someone has reported that error. If not,
> >> please open a new ticket for the issue.
> >
> > The error I encountered after installation involved missing tinymce
> > packages/software. I'm not sure if this is a result of my non-Debian
> > installation, or a result of a MediaGoblin issue. Unless folks think
> > otherwise, I will file a bug on this.
> >
> > MediaGoblin is up and running, but it doesn't actually display uploaded
> > images. Error logs point to missing tinymce javascript.
> 
> I don't think tinymce should have anything to do with that... I suspect
> it has to do with the paths where your images being served being hooked
> up to the web server.

Okay, I'll take a look at the paths then.

> 
> >> If you had to find a workaround for the installation that is specific to
> >> your distribution, then I think the MediaGoblin wiki [3] would be a good
> >> place to document that. Specifically, the HackingHowto page [4] seems to
> >> contain distro-specific knowledge.
> >
> > One curious bit was that installation required a bunch of npm binaries.
> > I didn't expect that. I’m not at my workstation right now, but I think
> > it involved extlibs (?). I wound up having to use npm to install bower. 
> > I thought this was strange.
> 
> So, doing the ./configure && make should do this for you, assuming you
> have npm installed (it should install bower)... did you use that?  The
> deployment docs are different for "latest" than "stable", and the reason
> is mostly the change in requirement to run ./configure && make.
> 
>   http://mediagoblin.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Aha! If only I had known to go off of the "latest" install docs.  : )  I
figured out some of what I had to do through looking at error messages
and reading notes on the mailing list.  : )

> 
> (I think the requirement to install npm is missing from the docs.  bower
> should not be needed, should happen automatically on ./configure &&
> make... if that's not true, please report the issue!)

Looks like I'll need to report the issue. Should the npm install go in
as part of the initial python-install requirements at the top of the
process?  Seems like that would be an appropriate spot such an action.

> 
> The requirement of npm does seem strange.  We needed to be able to
> remove the poor design of checking whole javascript libraries into git.
> I was initially against including another language's package manager as
> a requirement for building from source, and I began to spec out a plan
> so that our tooling could install those packages itself, but I was
> convinced by others that this was a bad idea; the plan I was beginning
> to make started to look like its own package manager, and using
> bower/npm is one less yak for us to shave.
> 
> More comments on deployment and docs, but I'll reply to your other email
> for that. :)
> 
> >> If none of those fit, try us again on IRC. I missed you earlier, but
> >> people are in and out at various times.
> >> 
> >> [1] https://issues.mediagoblin.org/
> >> [2] http://mediagoblin.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
> >> [3] https://wiki.mediagoblin.org/
> >> [4] https://wiki.mediagoblin.org/HackingHowto
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the clear notes about what options are available to give
> > feedback!
> >
> > Jim
> 
> Thanks both Jim, ayleph :)

I'll get another look at things over the weekend, and will be able to
follow-up w/ more info.

Thanks, all!

Jim