Is the news of Smith Project going open source actually a death knell?
Smith ProjectA few weeks ago, upon the news that Smith had open sourced its CFML processing engine, I started to get excited about the prospect of a good, open source and free option for our CF based web sites/applications.
In that vein, I started http://cfopen.instantspot.com and began putting together some documentation on how to set up Linux/Apache/MySQL/Smith servers. Even creating a couple virtual machines that developers could use to test their code.
While doing my own testing, I encountered some pretty crucial (in my view) issues that should at least be discussed with the Smith team. So, I immediately sent some emails and made some forum posts over at Smith Project's forums . To this day, I haven't heard anything or seen any replies to the forum posts. And, you may notice if you check out their forums, I'm not the only one not getting replies.
Could it be that the reason Smith went open source was because they no longer wanted to work on it? If that is the case, is there anybody out there that would want to get involved in improving Smith and making it a viable option?
http://www.smithproject.org/forum/posts/list/77.pa...
I would love to be able to contribute to that project.
I guess things with smith open source are getting better now. Please, check the changes log at smith forum:
http://www.smithproject.org/forum/posts/list/3.pag...
New builds are released approximately once a month lately, solving all bugs reported at the SourceForge tracker and including all posted patches, so I would like to encourage you to contribute to this project.
apt-get install SmithProject for Ubuntu? It would be a big plus to install it with one line like other php or python. Or is it possible and I'm having no luck finding it?
essentially Smith is a servlet application which should run on any servlet container. The .war (web archive) with all required dependencies is available at smithproject.org ...each servlet container has its instructions on how to deploy a war.
Usually, it is a good idea to use a web server (in our example, Apache httpd) which diverts client requests for cfml pages to a servlet container (Jetty, Tomcat, ...) where Smith resides.
It would be very hard to provide detailed instructions on how to install and configure each and every "operating system - web server - servlet container" combination as there are plenty of them. Of course, everyone is welcome to post installation steps and his own configuration to smithproject.org forum, for the benefit of others.
Our main goal is to provide the open-source cfml engine.
Kind regards,
Mirosslav
Thanks for the quick response. I guess what I'm asking is if there are any preassembled install packages for Smith Project on Ubuntu using apt-get. It probably wouldn't be on Smith Projects part to create this, more on the Ubuntu developers and contributors. Instead of having to download and manually install every piece, it would be nice to do a routine like the following:
sudo apt-get install tomcat5
sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-jk
sudo apt-get install smithproject
Please excuse version numbers or the order of execution, I'm not a linux guru by no means, but I think a quick easy install like this would definitely boost popularity of Smith Project especially with the rate Ubuntu is growing. I guess this is a loaded comment because Its full of questions. Is there anything like this yet? (I dont think??) Is there anyone working on anything like this? Is this open to the public to create or would Smith Project have to create it or give permission for someone to create it?
Trent
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