Out of date documentation

[duerig]

I just downloaded the latest nightly build and there are various pieces of the documentation that appear out of date for the SpreadPi image.

First, the location of the nightly builds linked from the forum and various places is incorrect. It doesn't link to the /nightly/ path. See, for example, this post: http://www.diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=2999

Second, the latest build no longer appears to generate logs in /var/log/spreads. Where is the log file now?

Third, there is no ~/virtspreads folder any more. So some of the documentation about how to set up the virtual environment and run manual configuration listed at https://github.com/DIYBookScanner/spreadpi/wiki will no longer work.

[markvdb]

Hello Jonathon,

Thank you for your attention to detail. We are aware of this issue. There
is work in progress packaging spreads for Debian/Ubuntu.

There is a repository with relatively recent working Debian packages at
http://spreads.jbaiter.de/ .

Please feel free to add a reference to this to the wiki and mark the build
info as partially obosolete.

Kind regards,

Mark

2014-08-11 17:03 GMT+02:00 Jonathon Duerig [email protected]:

I just downloaded the latest nightly build and there are various pieces of
the documentation that appear out of date for the SpreadPi image.

First, the location of the nightly builds linked from the forum and
various places is incorrect. It doesn't link to the /nightly/ path. See,
for example, this post:
http://www.diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=2999

Second, the latest build no longer appears to generate logs in
/var/log/spreads. Where is the log file now?

Third, there is no ~/virtspreads folder any more. So some of the
documentation about how to set up the virtual environment and run manual
configuration listed at https://github.com/DIYBookScanner/spreadpi/wiki
will no longer work.

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[duerig]

Thanks for your response. I was actually referring to the spreadpi image for Raspberry Pi rather than the debian package. The image seems to have a different filesystem layout than was described in the instructions before. If I knew whether there were still a virtual environment somewhere that was being used in it and where the log files are, it would help me greatly.

I'm glad that the Debian packaging seems to be progressing as well.

[jbaiter]

Yes, documentation and packaging are in progress. I initially had plans to have it all ready for the public by August, but alas, real life and personal limitations got in the way... Unfortunately I can't give you an ETA, I had to take some time off and am currently in the process of getting organized again.

As for the log, you can find it under ~/.config/spreads/spreads.log.
Also, the image is no longer using a virtual environment. Spreads is installed system-wide instead. Additionally, the image no longer proxies spreads through nginx, but you have to talk to the application directly on port 5000. The next iteration of the image will serve spreads on port 80, though.

[duerig]

Thanks. This will let me continue for now.