From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2004-09-07T10:43:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Instiki problem requires step 3

phil of ptkwt@aracnet.com [mailto:ptkwt@aracnet.com] wrote:

> I was going to demo instiki as part of a Ruby talk I'm giving 
> to our local 
> PerlMongers group.

cool. I have phobia talking to perl hackers, they seem to know all corners
of cpan :-))

> I also downloaded and installed instiki on my Powerbook (OSX 
> 10.3.4) and 
> it apparently created those directories automatically because 
> it worked 
> fine and as advertised.  Since I'll be doing the talk using 
> my Powerbook, 
> things should be OK, but the idea is that we want everyone in 
> the audience 
> to follow along and install instiki on their laptops (some of 
> which may 
> not be Powerbooks) if they want. (since about 75% of people 
> at these sorts 
> of talks bring their laptops these days and since wifi is 
> available, I'm 
> also going to encourage them to install Ruby early-on in the 
> talk so they 
> can try things as I go along).
> 
> Why do these directories have to be created manually on 
> Linux? Is this something that will be fixed in the next 

this happens on linux and win, I think. You can fix it faster by:
1. creating a script to check and create the dir if needed
2. modifying the zip file to include the directory (I think the zip file
didn't include empty dirs)

> version and will the next 
> version be available by Wednesday evening (when our talk 
> takes place :-)?
> 

As an admin, I would not want the default directory right under the program
directory. In fact, I should be able to specify my own storage dir (for
backup/restore/raid purpose). I think the -t option is handy.

Btw, introduce rpa to your students. Downloading isn't fun, but rpa is. Let
us all remove step #1 ;-)

> Phil
> 

kind regards -botp