[Booki-dev] Problems installing Booki on Fedora 11

[Aleksandar Erkalovic]

Hi James,

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:54 AM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> There also needs to be some suggestion of how to get redis running on
> boot up.  Redis doesn't even have an install target for its make file.
>  It's easy to get past that (copy the four binaries to /usr/local/bin)
> but I still need a good way to run the sumbitch on boot up.

this is something i promissed to do, and will try to do it soonish.

> Minor gripe: Booki shows a little picture of the user when you're
> logged in, but every user gets the same picture and you can't put in
> your own picture.  It would be better to have no picture at all than
> that.

hm... but you can change it. you have option for it if you click on
"my settings". if it does not show it after you upload, it is probable
issue with file permissions. will check that.

also, someone suggested we could use "gravatar" for this, and i am
thinking to put support for it soon, because it seems very easy.


> I have to say that Booki running by itself and using the shared OBJAVI
> works pretty well.  There's no way in hell you could run it in an
> office that way, though.

well, this is very good comment. working on one previous project (and
we were all young and foolish) i had idea that software should be
extremely easy to install.
so you had one .zip file, you could unzip it on
windows/linux/macosx/freebsd/... machine and it would work without any
setup and would do crazy things on
different urls. and it would all work with zero help from the
administrator. at the end, i realized it was just too much work for
very little benefit. now, i have different approach. this thing with
different url and booki is very simple to fix. the biggest problem is
dependencies. not many of them now, but i plan to introduce some not
so easily installable things. why? well, booki must work with hundred
of thousands of books and supporting software  for that can be
overkill for home machine. even redis is overkill now if you only have
<30 users. but still, there are some things (like better install info
and integration of all tools) that need work and i will do something
about it.

Aco

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