by Kevin Bowrin
created 2018-07-13
CLAW and Hyrax are two of the leading 'next gen' institutional repository software projects. Both are not widely used in production yet and are under heavy development. How much functionality is complete as of today, July 13th 2018? I did some testing in the two project's Vagrant boxes to see. One big caveat is that I tried to make as few configuration changes as possible on both boxes. This is not a complete test of what is technically possible right now.
An aside: both projects provide tools to help provision production ready enviroments. The Hyrax project provides AWS CloudFormation templates. The CLAW project uses the same Ansible scripts for provisioning a production enviroment or a small test VM. That approach is very smart and will hopefully lead to fewer 'doesn't work on my machine' bugs stemming from configuration problems.