[EP-underground] ePrints2 on the MacOSX

Does anyone have experience with eprints on MacOSX?

Stevan Harnad

>Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:22:10 -0500
>Subject: Fwd: ePrints2 on the MacOSX
>Cc: [email protected]
>To: Stéphanie Lanthier <[email protected]>
>From: Tech du LaCIM (A. Lauzon) <[email protected]>
>
>Bonjour tout le monde.
>
>Voici la réponse des gens de U. of Toronto.
>
>À plus tard,
>André
>
>Begin forwarded message:
>
>>From: Leslie Chan <[email protected]>
>>Date: Jeud octo 31, 2002  13:11:46 America/Montreal
>>To: "Tech du LaCIM   (A. Lauzon)" <[email protected]>
>>Subject: Re: ePrints2 on the MacOSX
>>
>>Dear André,
>>We do have ePrints2 running on a Mac OSX server but we are using version
>>10.1 on a G4 server. I am not the technical person here so I can't really
>>answer the more technical questions. I do recall that the installation
>>process was relatively straight forward and we only hired a fourth year
>>computer science student to install the software. The part that tripped him
>>had to do with some missing components in Apache that he needed to download
>>to make OS 10.1 work with ePrints2. Once installed, it had been very stable.
>>It is certainly a low cost and low maintenance alternative to a Sun system.
>>We are thinking about upgrading to 10.2 and would certainly like to learn
>>about your experience as well.
>>
>>Good day
>>Leslie Chan
>>
>>on 10/31/02 12:45 PM, Tech du LaCIM   (A. Lauzon) at [email protected]
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Good day sir.
>>>
>>>I am a technical advisor on a project to use ePrints to, ultimately,
>>>put online the entire library on thesis and subsequent articles. But
>>>for now, we intend to try on a much smaller scale, with only the
>>>department of cognitive sciences involved. The first impulse of the
>>>head of the project was to try and work with Sun microsystems running
>>>Linux, but the costs were daunting. So we looked for alternatives and
>>>thought of using Xserves with Mac OS X Server 10.2. I already manage
>>>one for my lab, but before any tests, I found that you had already
>>>ported ePrints2 to the OSX. Would it be possible to know if the process
>>>was fairly straigthforward, if you encountered particular problems, and
>>>if the results satisfied you, efficiency wise?
>>>
>>>Have a nice day, and thank you for your time.
>>>--
>>>
>>>André Lauzon
>>>Analyste en informatique
>>>LaCIM-UQAM
>>>courriel: [email protected]
>>>tel.: (514) 987-3000 x 4290
>>>fax.: (514) 987-8274