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macoln

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Feb 15, 2011, 1:07:04 AM2/15/11
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Hi, I am wondering if you can give me some tips on setting up Retro to
develop websites on a Windows machine running XAMPP? I'd like to learn
how to set it up on the web server to start with, and then use it to
create a highly customized CMS with decent performance. If I can get
some idea on how you set up that Corpse blog, that would help.

Much thanks you guys!


macoln

sixforty

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Feb 16, 2011, 12:13:52 AM2/16/11
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:07:04 -0800 (PST)
macoln <mr.g...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If I can get some idea on how you set up that Corpse blog, that would help.

http://rx-core.org/dev/corpse/article/5 might be useful. Did you have any trouble getting Retro itself to build on Windows? I see that Corpse uses a modified vm from Casket. No problem, as you probably have Python, and it's a python vm.

Visit http://rx-core.org , get playground and Casket. In playground, look inside users/crc for Corpse and read there for a start.

Haven't used Corpse or Casket myself, so HTH. And please don't be discouraged by your yet-unproductive visit to the IRC channel. crc usually answers questions when he's awake, but you were up past his bedtime. The channel logs are used as a pseudo-mail-list, but it's hard to know whom to answer when the poster isn't previously known. This list is better for that, but hasn't been active lately. Thanks for reminding me of it; it will now be more active.

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Charles Childers

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Feb 16, 2011, 7:52:55 AM2/16/11
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Malcon,

I've not tried setting up Casket and Corpse under XAMPP yet. My ability to do so is somewhat limited in that I only have Windows on my work computer, and don't get a lot of time to do non-work related development on it... I used to have access via VNC, but the internal network shuts down now about an hour after the work day ends, making this hard.

In theory, the Python VM should be able to build the proper images. Something like:

  type casket.rx corpse.rx | python retro.py

Should work to build the image (after making adjustments to the paths in corpse.rx).

As to setting up CGI support on XAMPP, I've not done that yet so can't help on that currently.

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macoln

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Feb 17, 2011, 2:07:51 AM2/17/11
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I guess I need some kind of more explanatory beginner's guide on how
to get familiar. I have installed Linux Mint Debian, maybe that would
make things easier? Also downloaded rx-core, playground, and casket.
I'll set up the directories like http://rx-core.org/dev/corpse/article/5,
but sixforty, I don't see anything about corpse in users/crc?

macoln

Bob

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Feb 18, 2011, 1:21:34 PM2/18/11
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:07:51 -0800 (PST)
macoln <mr.g...@gmail.com> wrote:

> but sixforty, I don't see anything about corpse in users/crc?

Sorry, my mistake. Since I've already erred by saying "users" instead of "user", please let me give the files' location the long way

http://rx-core.org/dev/playground.fossil/index . If you think you'll be continuing with Retro, Corpse, or Casket (or may want it otherwise), getting Fossil is a good idea. You can get started or even continue without it: Click login at upper right and login as anonymous. Then choose files, then click the hexadecimal "Files of check-in" number. Under other links, grab the ZIP archive. In that archive, reading user/crc/corpse/NOTES is a quick, terse start.

I'm sure this was more info than you needed (or wanted) to find the files, but hopefully such detail helped me not to lead you astray again. I'm looking at other things in Retro than Casket -- the info here will take you further than I can go, and others will chime in if needed. Sorry about the error, good luck.

BTW, in changing several accounts from "sixforty" to "roarde", I had missed this one; it's still me, like it or no.

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Charles Childers

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Feb 18, 2011, 3:03:32 PM2/18/11
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I made some changes to make it a little easier to build Corpse. Grab the latest snapshot from http://rx-core.org/dev/playground.fossil/info/08524e804d and take a look at the updated NOTES file (http://rx-core.org/dev/playground.fossil/artifact?name=526655704fc11b645f366667c4c57a7b2c23099d)

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