Daily Archives: January 4, 2006

Compiling VUE

In my ever expanding quest for places to integrtate Sakai into, I have decided to start playing with VUE (http://vue.tccs.tufts.edu/). VUE is pretty cool – it makes context maps.
In my crazy design thoughts, I want Sakai to hand VUE maps over web services. Those maps will contain information about sites the user has access to on the Sakai Host, and pages within those sites.
This is a long term fun thing for me. Thanks to Jeff K and Anoop K for their help on this.
But I figured I would share how I got VUE to compile on my Mac in case you want to be a cool VUE developer too.
It is (yet another) Chuck C-Schell script that I wronte because I have a terrible memory!
It grabs source, does a bit of fiddling with the source, compiles, and runs VUE.

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