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

[Lincoln Baxter, III]

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 <ivan.st.ivanov at gmail.com>
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 <devanshu911 at gmail.com>
> 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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