Message-ID: <3D06389C.8070302@cs.umass.edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:51:24 -0400
From: Louis Theran <theran@cs.umass.edu>
Subject: Running Wilbur in ACL



At the moment, the easiest way to run Wilbur in Allegro is to use more 
current code than what's in the pre-alpha.  You'll need an account on 
sourceforge to get CVS access if you don't have one.  Other than that, 
the directions are pretty straightforward---if they aren't send mail, and 
I'll try to help out.


1. Get the code from CVS

Assuming that you are using UNIX or a command line Windows CVS client, 
something along the lines of the following will get the right files.

   $ CVS_RSH=ssh
   $ CVSROOT=:ext:<yourname>@cvs.wilbur-rdf.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wilbur-rdf
   $ export CVS_RSH CVSROOT
   $ cvs co core
   $ cd core
   $ cvs up -r LST-2002-06-11-SNAP


2. Compile and load the system

In Lisp now, open up the file core/source/wilbur.system and set up a 
logical host named "wilbur" using translations similar to the ones shown 
in the comment at the top of the file.  Then load wilbur.system (C-c C-b 
works fine).

Since the Allegro defsystem is already loaded in the default image, just 
use (excl:compile-system :wilbur) to build it.  This process looks 
something like the following.

   CL-USER(1): (setf (logical-pathname-translations "wilbur")
               '(("core;*.lisp"   "wilbur:base;source;*.*")
                 ("core;*.system" "wilbur:base;source;*.*")
                 ("core;*.fasl"   "wilbur:bin;*.*")
                 ("core;*.*"      "wilbur:base;*.*")
                 ("schemata;*.*"  "wilbur:base;schemata;*.*")
                 ("base;**;*.*"   "~/wilbur/core/**/*.*")
                 ("bin;**;*.*"    "~/wilbur/binaries/**/*.*")))
   ;; [ ... ]
   ;; [ ... Load wilbur.system ... ]
   CL-USER(2): (compile-system :wilbur)
   ; Compiling system: "Wilbur RDF processor and frame system".
   ;; [  ... Should compile with no warnings ... ]


3. Try it out

Switch to the package :wilbur-user, create a database and load an RDF 
file from the web as follows:

   CL-USER(3): :pack wilbur-user
   WILBUR-USER(4): (setf *db* (make-instance 'db))
   #<DB size 84 @ #x716068f2>
   WILBUR-USER(5): (load-db "http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf")
   ; Fast loading from bundle code/acldns.fasl.
   #<DB size 43 @ #x714a0d52>
   !"http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf"
   NIL
   WILBUR-USER(6): *db*
   #<DB size 127 @ #x71452efa>


If you've gotten this far, then Wilbur is up and running.  The 
documentation in the distribution has more information on using Wilbur 
and the Ivanhoe frame API for RDF.


Hope this is helpful.  I will try to put together another release in 
the near future, but it will have pretty much what you get from the 
LST-2002-06-11-SNAP tag.


^L