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Brian and Jon installed PURLz on gould.mannlib.cornell.edu using the default database (HSQLDB, not MySQL). All members of the team have accounts with the netid portion of their username and a password supplied in email – perhaps you will have better luck than we did, or perhaps it works better with MySQL. Neither of us is familiar with HSQLDB or its command line interface.
We had difficulty doing anything, and were not even able to get to the level of the initial installation on Jon's laptop.
Among the difficulties we encountered:
- inability to find a domain again after creation
- very confusing user interface mixing modification with finding
- very frustrating inability to list anything
- conflicting documentation about when slashes are required
- very little information about whether domains inherit privileges/restrictions
- inability to make partial redirect feature work
In summary, this tool seems promising in design but is very hard to evaluate. Notes from the SVN repository history indicate work is ongoing, with bugs fixed as recently as 12/17, but we did not yet try to contact the development team.
12/1/2008
Brian and Jon installed PURLZ on Jon's Mac laptop using the PURLZ 1.2 JAR file; installation was a simple series of steps initiated by double-clicking on the Jar file.
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