I'm not sure where to begin, looks like the ARC language hasn't been worked on since 2009? Are there any resources I could use or where do you recommend I start?
Do you have much experience programming? That'll help tailor advice for your situation.
The first step is to get Arc running like you asked before. After that the next step would be to go through the steps in how-to-run-news in the Arc directory.
There's a lot involved in maintaining a site for a community at this point in time. A good language can only help so much.
Yes, I have experience programming from years ago and recently started learning Python until I happened across Arc. I think it's neat and would be great for my project. Where is the how-to-run news in case I don't find it myself? Thanks
I ran (load "news.arc") this time and it prints out a list of items prefixed with * redefining and 'nil' returns after the last item.
However, nothing happens at localhost8080 and when I run (nsv) it gives this message:
The syntax of the command is incorrect.
The syntax of the command is incorrect.
The syntax of the command is incorrect.
The syntax of the command is incorrect.
'rm' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
load items: Error: "directory-list: could not open
directory\n path: C:\\Users\\Hopet Ma'at
Amun\\Desktop\\arc3.2\\arc\\news\\story\\\n system error:
The system cannot find the path specified.; win_err=3"
There are a number of system calls like (system "rm ...") in news.arc and other places. These run shell commands, and most of them only work on a POSIX shell. I'm sorry to say, I'm not sure anyone has ever gone through all these calls and made them portable so that news.arc can run on Windows.
If you use the Anarki master branch, I think a few of those calls have been replaced with more portable code, but not all of them. I've at least been able to get a server started up and showing content before.
I used to use Arc on Windows quite a bit, and I tried the web server a couple of times, but I never really used the web server. Nowadays I still use Windows, but I do a lot of my programming projects inside a Linux Mint VM using VirtualBox. I think running news.arc inside a VM like that would be one of the easier ways to get it working. Of course, learning to set up a VM like that could be a lot to figure out, but at least that's something a lot of people out there have already written up tutorials for.
Another possibility is to look for one of the many Hacker News clones that people have whipped up in other languages. You probably won't get to use Arc that way, but some of those clones may be better architected and better maintained than news.arc.
