Installation: Windows

Windows it the toughest system to get ShiftSpace installed on. You’ll have to go through the following with a little bit of patience.

Git

Install the latest version of "msysgi"t:http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

Python

You should use the appropriate installer from here.

Installing Java

Install the Java SE Development Kit

Installing CouchDB

The CouchDB Wiki has excellent instructions on installing the developer version of CouchDB. Check it out here.

Getting ShiftSpace

Make sure you have msysgit installed. Launch git-bash and run the following:

$ cd Desktop
$ git clone git://github.com/ShiftSpace/shiftspace.git

We now want to create a local branch that tracks the remote shiftserver branch where all of the main 1.0 development happens:

$ cd shiftspace
$ git branch --track shiftserver origin/shiftserver

Now we want want to checkout this branch as well as bring in the external repositories.

$ git checkout shiftserver
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

This will take a little while.