wiki:GnowsisDevelopingBeta

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Documentation

Project guidelines:

Get it running

Detailed installation instructions for developers: DevelopingFirstSteps

Prerequisites:

  • Eclipse 3.1.0 (we all use it)
  • subclipse or any other subversion client
  • Java 1.5

The subversion repository is

There you check out these projects, the most important projects to check out are:

  • gnowsis - starter
  • gnowsis-server - core
  • enquire2006 - gui
  • kaukoluwiki - the semantic kaokolu wiki
  • sesame1 - web api for gnowsis

If you want to do Aperture development:

  • Aperture in CVS: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aperture login
    • host: cvs.sourceforge.net
    • repository path: /cvsroot/aperture
    • connection type: pserver
    • username: anonymous
    • password: empty
  • Checkout project aperture

Getting it to start

The gnowsis project has the launcher for you.

  • If you have gnowsis checked out - the "run..." menu should have a list of favourites:
    • Windows start gnowsis
    • MacOSX start gnowsis
  • The GnowsisInstaller will show. satisfy it.
  • pressing close. gnowsis installs now silently. stand up, take a breath. think of something positive. notice the new simplicity. tell somebody a nice thing. sit down again.
  • GnowsisProjectPlan - look here to see what we are doing at the moment and what will be done next.

Specific Fields of Development

Contributing

The first thing you might want to do is to write your own datasource, Gnowsis can deploy your own datasources without having to change the gnowsis code: See DynamicDatasources for more information! Then JoinGnowsis.