[lively-kernel] Report: Installing Lively Core locally from GitHub - a few issues and a question

[Milan Zimmermann]

Hi Fabian:

Thanks for your answers as always. Yeah, I was sort of thinking how
minimal_server does WebDAV looking at the code :) but kept going
hoping it would work.

But like you said it would be cool eventually to run without apache
for a simple install (and for now change the instructions ; if I get
to it I will make a  fork and add my notes or just email them here).

So I will  re-setup Apache and try there, and report here how far I get,

Thanks,

milan



On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Fabian Bornhofen
<fbornhofen at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Milan -
>
> the main purpose of minimal_server is to run a few tests. SCB or
> PartsBin Browser do not work at this point.
> The reason for this is that it does not implement WebDAV (yet). It is
> not that big of a deal to make some basic commands work.
>
> A few thoughts on that:
> - Thanks for pointing out that we need to make this point clear (I
> guess we just assumed everybody would run LK from Apache)!
> - WebDAV in the node.js server might not be something that belongs
> into the core repository ...
> - ... but then, that would be extremely valuable to our efforts to go
> viral. People would not have to set up Apache anymore, but would use a
> small node server instead. Makes sense to me :).
>
> Best
> Fabian
>
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Milan Zimmermann
> <milan.zimmermann at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Milan Zimmermann
>> <milan.zimmermann at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi:
>>>
>>> I installed Lively core from Github. Basically I have it working but
>>> not in a useful way - right mouse click on the world shows the menu,
>>> but clicking any item , I get an error or nothing happens.
>>>
>>> e.g. PartsBIn
>>> Error in handleEvent when calling
>>> <lively.morphic.Text#2C915...>>>onMouseUpEntry: TypeError: Cannot call
>>> method 'openInWorld' of undefined
>>>
>>> I was hoping the referred
>>>
>>> https://github.com/rksm/LivelyKernel/wiki/How-to-make-PartsBin-work
>>>
>>> will give me some hints but it does not seem to exist yet.
>>>
>>> Is there anything I can do about the errors?
>>
>> made some progress by running
>>    make install_partsbin
>>
>> Now parts and parts bin can be dragged out, but then I am getting:
>>
>> Error when trying to update
>> AttributeConnection(WebResource(http://localhost:9001/PartsBin/).contentDocument
>> --> WebResource(http://localhost:9001/PartsBin/).pvtProcessPropfindForSubElements)
>> with value :
>> Error: Cannot access subElements of http://localhost:9001/PartsBin/
>> Error: Cannot access subElements of http://localhost:9001/PartsBin/
>>    at WebResource.pvtProcessPropfindForSubElements
>> (http://localhost:9001/core/lively/Network.js?1330232383038:1586:19)
>>    at http://localhost:9001/core/lively/bindings/Core.js?1330232383486:178:19
>>    at AttributeConnection.update
>> (http://localhost:9001/core/lively/bindings/Core.js?1330232383486:188:5)
>>    at WebResource.contentDocument
>> (http://localhost:9001/core/lively/bindings/Core.js?1330232383486:246:8)
>>    at Object.setResponseXML
>> (http://localhost:9001/core/lively/Network.js?1330232383038:1160:74)
>>    at http://localhost:9001/core/lively/bindings/Core.js?1330232383486:178:19
>>    at AttributeConnection.update
>> (http://localhost:9001/core/lively/bindings/Core.js?1330232383486:188:5)
>>    at NetRequest.connectionWrapper [as setResponseXML]
>> (http://localhost:9001/core/lively/bindings/Core.js?1330232383486:271:17)
>>    at NetRequest.onReadyStateChange
>> (http://localhost:9001/core/lively/Network.js?1330232383038:505:22)
>>    at XMLHttpRequest.bound [as onreadystatechange]
>> (http://localhost:9001/core/lively/bootstrap.js:853:37)
>>
>> Would there be any hints for that -
>>
>> Thanks
>> milan
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>> Installation notes - there were some issues that I managed to fix -
>>> may be useful to others
>>> ==================================================================
>>>
>>> # see https://github.com/rksm/LivelyKernel#readme
>>>
>>> # get code
>>>   # Instructions do NOT work here: git clone
>>> git at github.com:rksm/LivelyKernel.git ~/software/lively/LivelyKernel
>>> git clone git://github.com/rksm/LivelyKernel.git
>>> ~/software/lively/LivelyKernel # works
>>>
>>> # init project dependencies
>>> cd ~/software/lively/LivelyKernel
>>> npm install
>>>
>>> received error :
>>> --------------------
>>>        ../src/microtime.cc:1:16: fatal error: v8.h: No such file or directory
>>>        compilation terminated.
>>>
>>>        solution : had to
>>>        -----------------------
>>>                SWITCH libv8-3 package to get from NodeJS repo (not opensuse base)
>>>                install v8-devel and v8-private-headers-devel from NodeJS repo
>>>
>>> # start http server on 9001
>>> make start_server
>>>
>>> received error:
>>> -----------------------
>>> mzimmermann at home-server:~/software/lively/LivelyKernel> make start_server
>>> minimal server starting: http://localhost:9001/
>>> ./node_modules/nodemon/nodemon.js --watch ./minimal_server
>>> ./minimal_server/serve.js 9001
>>> ,,,
>>> node.js:201
>>>        throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
>>> Error: Cannot find module 'formidable'
>>> ....
>>>        solution : had to
>>>        -----------------------
>>>    npm install formidable
>>>
>>> # visitted
>>> http://localhost:9001/blank.xhtml
>>>   # page looks OK but clicking anything in world menu, I get an error
>>> or nothing happens.
>>>
>>> # You can install all the cool tools from Webwerkstatt's PartsBin.
>>> Have a look at the HOWTO - does not exist.
>>> https://github.com/rksm/LivelyKernel/wiki/How-to-make-PartsBin-work
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