Dear Derek,
Thanks for your note. You can get a working instance of Haystack with
fewer steps by deleting steps 1-3 in your list and inserting a new step 4.5:
4.5 Goto Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install
Search for new features to install -> Next
Obtain the GEF plugin from the Eclipse update site (your don't
need the SDK, just the smaller framework).
http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/haystack-eclipse-05242004-win32.zip is an
older version of Haystack. It has more features than the one currently
available from the update site, but is not being maintained for
distribution. These extra features will appear gradually on the update
site. As of tonight, there's a new release on the site (1.0.11) that
contains web browsing features.
Regards,
Steve Garland
Derek Colley wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I finally have a working instance of haystack (I think).
>
> How I did it:
>
> 0. Install J2SDK 1.4.2_04 with bells and whistles
> 1. Download
> http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/haystack-eclipse-05242004-win32.zip
> 2. Unzip to preferred location, mine went to: C:\Data\Downloads\Haystack
> 3. Launch eclipse.exe (Not "Launch Haystack.bat" - this hangs)
> Accept "/C:/Data/Downloads/Haystack" as the workspace
> 4. Goto Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install
> Search for new features to install -> Next
> 5. Add an update site "Haystack" : http://haystack.csail.mit.edu/update
> 6. Once added, expand and select all options in the sub-tree.
> I selected: Haystack Core, Demonstrations and Extensions
> 7. Select features to install - I selected all features - continue to
> the end of the installation
> Eclipse will prompt for a restart - accept this
> 8. After restart, Goto Help -> Software Updates -> Manage Configuration
> 9. Select Hastack 1.0.0 -> Disable
> Eclipse will prompt for a restart - accept this
> When Eclipse restarts you will see a couple of progress bars while
> various Haystack 'features' initialise
>
> That's as far as I get. Looking at the tutorials and developers
> papers, I guess there's a far way to go before I can use this to read
> my email... ;o)
>
> --
> Rgds,
> Derek
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Cody Burleson [mailto:cburleso_at_us.ibm.com]
> *Sent:* 29 March 2005 18:44
> *To:* Derek Colley
> *Subject:* RE: Haystack repaired
>
>
> If you get any information about this, please do share. I have gotten
> mine running (I think). But I am not sure if I really have all the
> pieces put together properly. Because I just can't figure out how to
> work it, but maybe that is just me not knowing how to use it.
>
> All I did was add the update site in eclipse and download the plug-ins
> in that way.
>
> ==================================
> Cody Burleson
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>
>
>
> *"Derek Colley" <derek_at_netsimple.net>*
>
> 03/29/2005 04:59 AM
>
>
> To
> "'Stephen J. Garland'" <garland_at_csail.mit.edu>, Cody Burleson/Falls
> Church/IBM_at_IBMUS, "'PLU Michel RD-TECH-LAN'"
> <michel.plu_at_francetelecom.com>, "'Jan Peeters'" <post_at_janpeeters.nl>,
> "'Dean Allemang'" <dallemang_at_acm.org>, <haystack_at_mit.edu>,
> <general_at_simile.mit.edu>
> cc
>
> Subject
> RE: Haystack repaired
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to haystack - yet to get a version running... Can someone
> please let
> me know how to combine the various downloads into a working installation?
>
> The following urls seem to be aliases to the same web domain:
> - http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/
> - http://haystack.csail.mit.edu/
>
> Download site has:
> - /haystack-eclipse-05242004-win32.zip
> - /haystack.dmg
> - /haystack08202003.zip
> - /haystack08202003.tgz
> - /haystack0604.zip
> - /haystack0604.tgz
>
> Upgrade site has:
> - /update/features/edu.mit.csail.haystack.core_1.0.9.jar
> - /update/features/edu.mit.csail.haystack.standard_1.0.9.jar
> - /update/features/edu.mit.csail.haystack.subfloor_1.0.9.jar
> - /update/features/edu.mit.csail.haystack.simileDemo_1.0.9.jar
> - /update/features/edu.mit.csail.haystack.bio_1.0.9.jar
>
> ... yet the edu.mit.csail.haystack.* doesn't match anything in the
> download
> files? I.e. in the downloads we see:
> - plugins/edu.mit.lcs.haystack_1.0.0
> - features/edu.mit.lcs.haystack.eclipse.feature_1.0.0
>
> I'd like to contribute a paper on my experience of getting haystack
> running,
> but I need some help to get there.
>
> --
> Rgds,
> Derek
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen J. Garland [mailto:garland_at_csail.mit.edu]
> > Sent: 22 March 2005 18:38
> > To: Cody Burleson; PLU Michel RD-TECH-LAN; Derek Colley; Jan
> > Peeters; Dean Allemang; haystack_at_mit.edu; general_at_simile.mit.edu
> > Subject: Haystack repaired
> >
> > The problems with the prior release of the Haystack plugins
> > for Eclipse have been fixed. A new release (1.0.9) is
> > available at http://haystack.csail.mit.edu/update.
> >
> >
>
>
>
Received on Fri Apr 01 2005 - 01:45:03 EST