Re: Annotation Server

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:22:19PM -0400, Dan Brickley wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Ralph R. Swick wrote:
> 
> > At 03:09 AM 7/24/2001 -0400, Ville Maijala wrote:
> >
> > Hello, Ville.  Eric is out of the office too at the moment, so I'll
> > respond quickly to the easiest parts of your questions.
> >
> > >... Is there coming some new instructions to set up the annotation
> > >server?
> >
> > Did you use the 'Getting the Perllib Source' instructions at
> > http://www.w3.org/1999/02/26-modules/Distribution.html ?
> > I think that those are the most recent, yes.
> >
> > >  Have you tried that in Windows NT? Did you succeed? Or have you
> > >heard that someone else have?
> >
> > We have not tried running an Annotea service on NT.  I think
> > a long time ago someone was using early versions of the
> > RdfParser code on NT but I haven't kept track of that.
> >
> > For my perl/Win work I use ActiveState's ActivePerl on NT/Win2k.
> > But I've only used the RDFdb code on linux.
> 
> I've run the Perllib tools, including the old Tk-based GUI, under Windows
> (NT, I think; yes, using ActivePerl). They worked fine, but I've not tried
> these since (wow...time flies!) Nov '99.
> 
> I didn't use any of the SQL-related packages, but can vouch that the
> XML/RDF parser, RDF query engine etc pretty much "just worked". Eric and I
> made some .xml config files that the then-current version of the Windows
> Perl stuff consumed; I believe these are now out of date, but IMHO it
> shouldn't be too big a deal to make the basic stuff run under Windows. How
> much further work it would be to run a full RDF Annotation server, I've no
> idea.

I haven't maintained the ppd files to install the perl libraries on
windows. The simplest solution is to check them out with CVS. There
are a couple CVS packages for windows. I haven't played with either
Apache or MySQL on Windows but would be interested in what you had to
report back.

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-eric

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