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Rwiki for Sakai Source Tarball (alpha 20050818 snapshot)
To build
unpack the tar
cd into the directory
maven sakai
Be cetain to turn auto.ddl on in placeholder.properties
There is one dependency not in the source tarball which can be found at http://www2.caret.cam.ac.uk/maven/jrcs/jars/diff-1.0.jar
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