[rt-devel] RT 4.2.12 with plugins but neither installed using CPAN

[Joachim Schiele]

ha! now i installed to /tmp/rt4 (also the rest2 plugin) and both work.

thanks so much!

On 24.02.2016 14:56, Jim Brandt wrote:
> One way to do development from git repos is something like:
> 
> * clone RT from git in a working directory
> * clone new extension repos into another working directory
> * set the RTHOME environment variable to the location of your test RT
> * run the typical perl Makefile.PL; make install for the extension
> * restart RT (either Apache or standalone dev server)
> 
> The installer puts files in different places under RT's local directory
> so they get picked up by RT properly. It would likely be a fair bit of
> hacking to try to fake it out. We usually just create a simple shell
> alias for the install steps so we can do something like:
> 
> * open files in extension
> * code, code, code
> * run 'install' alias, or whatever you want to call it
> * test on the RT side
> 
> You can also put the RT restart command in your alias so everything gets
> reloaded when you install more code.
> 
> It's not too much overhead and the good part is when you're done you
> know that the extension should install as expected for others.
> 
> If you haven't found it yet, this should help as well:
> 
> https://bestpractical.com/docs/rt/4.2/writing_extensions.html
> 
> On 2/24/16 5:05 AM, Joachim Schiele wrote:
>> hey,
>>
>> === Q1 running RT from GIT + plugin from GIT ===
>>
>> i want to get the REST2 plugin, and later my own plugin going with RT
>> 4.2.12 but i don't want to install either using CPAN yet as i want to
>> modify the sources.
>>
>> is there a way like placing a symlink in rt/lib to rt-extension-rest2/
>> ../../rt-extension-rest2/lib/RT/Extension/REST2* or something similar?
>>
>> === Q2 extension install path ===
>>
>> if i install a extension it will usually be installed into the /rt path
>> and not as normal CPAN modules into $somewhere from where it is
>> referenced using PERL5LIB
>>
>> is that the only way to install a plugin?
>>
>> ===
>>
>> thanks for help!
>>
>> regards,
>> joachim & paul
>>
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