[OGo-Discuss] Is OpenGroupware the solution for me?

[Helge Hess]

On Apr 17, 2006, at 16:14, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> 1)
>> How long (easy) is it to setup an OpenGroupware server on MacOSX?
>> (taking into account my profile)

Few people _deploy_ OGo on OSX (some people including me use it for 
development). There is a specific list macosx@opengroupware.org which 
can help you with getting up and running (please read the archives 
prior posting).

If you encounter no glitches it should be up and running in some 30 
minutes. If you do, it might take significantly longer :-) As mentioned 
OSX is not a primary deployment platform and not nearly tested as well 
as the Linux packages.

I would suggest to use a cheap PC to run OGo instead of wasting the 
precious OSX hardware on it ;-) (especially PPC hardware tends to be 
much slower for the given task than even the cheapest ix86 hardware)

>> Some classes make me think of WebObjects. Does that mean I could
>> customize some templates? Are there re-usable wo-components?

Yes, all templates are just regular WOComponents though in the case of 
OGo the WOResourceManager is patched a lot (for theming and resource 
lookup in FHS locations).
A lot of the components are reusable ones. We also use a lot of 
advanced WODynamicElements from SOPE for speed reasons (which cannot be 
easily changed w/o coding).

> If you want roles for appointment particpants which are quite usefule
> you need to use 1.1.x, otherwise you can use 1.0.x.

For OSX I tend to recommend the latest alpha release available (like 
1.1.3), or maybe even trunk. Issues *do* come up now and then and we 
definitely won't add OSX specific patches to OGo 1.0 (feature frozen).

Greets,
   Helge
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