[FLOW3-general] .zip-Releases are a good idea

[Christian Müller]

Hi Gérald,

On 15.02.13 02:49, Gérald Bertet-Pilon Nicolas wrote:
> Hello!
>
> “
> Downloading Flow 2.0 beta 1
>
> Starting with Flow 2.0 we don't plan to release tar or zip archives anymore (unless you convince us that this is a bad idea). Instead, you can install and upgrade through the simple composer commands. Even if you have never used Composer before, does it get any simpler than this?
>
> curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
> php composer.phar create-project --dev --stability beta typo3/flow-base-distribution
>
> ”
>
> Well, for some of the newbies like me, this actually is a bad idea as an installation via Terminal becomes quite a challenge. 
Actually we received similar reports and requests for our TYPO3 Neos
alpha releases, so I guess we will provide archive files too for future
releases.
>
> 1) I guess I missed something important to do, beside copy/paste entering the provided code:
> 2) So, I grabbed the available .zip for version 1.0.6 but I’m not sure how to proceed to the installation of FLOW3 – simply by drag&drop? :
> 3) And most importantly, where should I copy the files to? This screenshot shows my first try. Is this the correct place for the FLOW3 data?
The mailing list doesn't allow file attachments. Maybe you can provide
links to the screens?
>
>
>
> 4) Unfortunately, all the tutorials I’ve ever seen (e. g. Video2Brain.com) show how to proceed on PCs but not on a MAC. Can you perhaps recommend a video tutorial bases on the MAC OS?
Our entire team is working with MAC OS so it works fine there and we can
help you with that :) You can also visit us in IRC on server
freenode.net channel #typo3-flow
>
> I’m on MAC OS 10.7.5
> Using XAMPP 1.7.3
> trying to install FLOW3 with YAML in order to create responsive layouts
>
> 5) These are my current packages ( maybe I should use a newer version of the mySQL-Client instead of 5.1.44 with FLOW3? )
>
> MySQL
>
> Server: Localhost via UNIX socket
> Server Version: 5.1.44
> Protokoll-Version: 10
> Benutzer: root at localhost
> MySQL-Zeichensatz: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
> Webserver
>
> Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l PHP/5.3.1 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1
> MySQL-Client-Version: 5.1.44
> PHP Erweiterung: mysql
> phpMyAdmin
>
> Versionsinformationen: 3.2.4

The biggest problem here is probably PHP 5.3.1 which is quite old by
now. I would recommend PHP > 5.3.8, we use macports [1] on our macs to
install PHP, MySQL and Apache, that works well.

Cheers,
Christian

[1] http://www.macports.org/