[forge-dev] Install Forge from CURL (FORGE-1896)

[d911]

Hello!

I’ve been working on the Issue:Install Forge from CURL

(https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1896)

While writing the script I found that the installer extracts to the name

:”forge-distribution-2.12.1.Final”. Meanwhile reading the installation

documents on the forge website(http://forge.jboss.org/document/installation),

I found that the install location suggested is “~/forge/“ (maintaining the

bin folder directly inside this).

Should I rename the extracted zip archive to “forge” inside the script ? or

should I modify the path variable?

Please correct me if I am wrong anywhere or if there is an alternate way to

handle this. (This is my first outing with open source!).

Devanshu

[ivan_stefanov]

Hi Devanshu,

I think that the documentation seems a bit confusing. Actually, you can

extract Forge to whatever directory you like. Then you should just add that

directory to your path.

IMHO, the docu would sound a bit more clear if the sentence

*On Unix based operating systems, this typically means editing your

~/.bashrc or ~/.profile; you will need to the following entries:*

was changed to something like:

*On Unix based operating systems, this typically means editing your

~/.bashrc or ~/.profile. Suppose you have extracted Forge under ~/forge

directory. Then you will need to add the following entries:*

And still the question remains: if you extract directly the zip under

~/forge, then your FORGE_HOME should be (as you noticed)

~/forge/forge-distribution-2.12.1.Final. So even the above explanation is

not the best...

Lincoln, George, what do you think?

Cheers,

Ivan

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Devanshu Singh <[e-mail]>

wrote:

Hello!

I’ve been working on the Issue:Install Forge from CURL

(https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1896)

>

While writing the script I found that the installer extracts to the name

:”forge-distribution-2.12.1.Final”. Meanwhile reading the installation

documents on the forge website(

http://forge.jboss.org/document/installation), I found that the install

location suggested is “~/forge/“ (maintaining the bin folder directly

inside this).

Should I rename the extracted zip archive to “forge” inside the script ?

or should I modify the path variable?

Please correct me if I am wrong anywhere or if there is an alternate way

to handle this. (This is my first outing with open source!).

Devanshu

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[lincolnthree]

Hey Ivan,

I think your update makes more sense. Our current docs don't do a very good

job of explaining that this is just an example, and is also optional.

~Lincoln

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Ivan St. Ivanov <[e-mail]>

wrote:

Hi Devanshu,

I think that the documentation seems a bit confusing. Actually, you can

extract Forge to whatever directory you like. Then you should just add that

directory to your path.

IMHO, the docu would sound a bit more clear if the sentence

*On Unix based operating systems, this typically means editing your

~/.bashrc or ~/.profile; you will need to the following entries:*

was changed to something like:

*On Unix based operating systems, this typically means editing your

~/.bashrc or ~/.profile. Suppose you have extracted Forge under ~/forge

directory. Then you will need to add the following entries:*

And still the question remains: if you extract directly the zip under

~/forge, then your FORGE_HOME should be (as you noticed)

~/forge/forge-distribution-2.12.1.Final. So even the above explanation is

not the best...

Lincoln, George, what do you think?

Cheers,

Ivan

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Devanshu Singh <[e-mail]>

wrote:

>> Hello!

>>

>> I’ve been working on the Issue:Install Forge from CURL

>> (https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-1896)

>>

>>

>> While writing the script I found that the installer extracts to the name

>> :”forge-distribution-2.12.1.Final”. Meanwhile reading the installation

>> documents on the forge website(

>> http://forge.jboss.org/document/installation), I found that the install

>> location suggested is “~/forge/“ (maintaining the bin folder directly

>> inside this).

>> Should I rename the extracted zip archive to “forge” inside the script ?

>> or should I modify the path variable?

>> Please correct me if I am wrong anywhere or if there is an alternate way

>> to handle this. (This is my first outing with open source!).

>>

>> Devanshu

>>

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