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

[David Sporer]

Hi Christian,

+1 for the zip archives.
I wouldn't call myself a newbie but I think it's more comfortable to
install Flow on e.g. xampp by just extracting the Zip, calling the
cmd-commands and start developing.

Regards
David


2013/2/15 Christian Müller <christian.mueller at typo3.org>

> 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/
>
>
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