Re: Installing Plone v3.2 on Mac OS X 10.5

I think it's worth adding a "which installer do I want?" section to the
Products page...


On 4/2/09 10:36 AM, "mosx86" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> After taking some time to look at the unified installer in more detail, I can
> see how it's the way you'd want to go with documentation.  I think it would
> still be useful to have something on how to do buildout without relying on the
> unified installer or binary installers, but perhaps that could exist as a
> generic *nix document (one that strictly uses autotools).
> 
> I think part of the problem might be that on the downloads page there is
> nothing that really differentiates between the binary installers and the
> unified installer (They are really two different concepts).  And while many of
> us know that Mac OS X is UNIX at its core, I see no mention of it until I
> download the unified installer and read the README file.  It suggests that the
> binary installer is the way to go on Mac OS X.
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to look at this.
> 
> Regards!
> 
> 
> Hi mosx86,
> 
> We've got two installer solutions for OS X:
> 
> 1) The specialized OS X installer. This is a binary installer with a
> standard Mac GUI installer. X-Code is not required. It lets you choose
> target location, single-instance or ZEO, and production or development.
> 
> 2) The Unified Installer. This is a source install kit, and you must
> pre-install the X-Code tools on OS X. Basically, it's a batch of sources and
> an install script. It lets you choose target location, single-instance or
> ZEO, and production or development. If you wish, you may use a system Python
> 2.4 (I'd suggest using macports for that) and it will automatically use
> virtualenv to protect it.
> 
> Both of these, and every other installer we ship, are buildout-based. All
> deliver a buildout-equipped installation.
> 
> I'm not saying that you need to use them. I'm just suggesting that if you're
> writing a document on OS X installation, you might want to try one or both
> installers first to get a baseline.
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:26 AM, mosx86 <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Steve,
>> 
>> I'm still relatively new to plone.  My initial research and reading
>> materials all pointed to using buildout as the pathway to production
>> deployment.  The documentation out there for the Mac platform is either
>> based on macports or binary installer.  I like as much control over my
>> installations as possible, and have been burned by wysiwyg installers/admin
>> tools in the past so in my mind, buildout was the way to go.  I also found
>> that installing the individual components to be helpful in understanding
>> Plone more thoroughly and thought that some clean documentation that takes
>> you through each step would be helpful to others using the Mac platform.
>> 
>> I'm always open to ways to make my life easier though and will take another
>> look at the Unified Installer.
>> 
>> Regards!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> mosx86,
>> 
>> I wonder if you tried using the Unified Installer? If you've already got
>> the
>> X-Code tools installed, the Unified Installer (which is a source-code kit)
>> will do all of this for you, with lots more options and a lot less pain.
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Veda Williams <veda-PRw/[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm not sure if anyone else has responded to this, but I'd love to see
>> this
>>> get incorporated on plone.org. It looks like a pretty easy cut + paste
>> job
>>> that would be easy for a newbie to do. Any way we could fit this into a
>>> TuneUp?
>>> 
>>> Thanks, mosx!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 3/24/09 5:33 PM, "mosx86" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I've written a guide on how to install plone from source on Mac OS X
>> 10.5
>>>> Server/Client.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
https://webdev.gseis.ucla.edu/documentation/installing-plone-v3.2-on-mac-os-x>>
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>>>> 10.5
>>>> 
>>>> I thought it might be useful in addition to the information posted at:
>>>> http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/hosting-mac
>>>> 
>>>> Regards!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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