[Xerte-dev] Re: Location of xwd and rlm files in the svn(s) plus any other shared files

[Ron Mitchell]

That's a good point Jonathan but I guess the answer isn't straightforward
:-(

 

e.g. I notice Fay has just updated
/trunk/modules/xerte/parent_templates/Nottingham/data.xwd but I'm not sure
what changes that contains or whether that brings it in sync or out of sync
with the Xerte version or rather versions.

 

As we've listed and discussed the custom stylesheet option has gone missing
in the XOT 1.8 beta to which I guess means it's gone missing from the xwd
but I'm not sure how or why. Likewise there's the discussion about the order
in which the categories and page types appear in the Nottingham template and
I guess this applies to Xerte as well as XOT although I haven't checked if
this has changed in Xerte too?

 

I guess Julian is king and needs to guide us? ;-)

 

Cheers

Ron

 

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp
Johnathan
Sent: 20 April 2012 10:47
To: Xerte Developers Discussion List
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Location of xwd and rlm files in the svn(s) plus any
other shared files

 

Currently we have separate svns for Xerte and Toolkits.

 

Whilst developing the new model and xwd files I set up a pageWizards folder
in the root of the Xerte svn so that they could be developed parallel to the
existing models which were still in use.

 

Now we have come to a point where we are testing a beta release of Toolkits
that is based on these new models and xwds. Also a beta release of desktop
Xerte is imminent, which will also be using the same model and xwd files.
They will also share many other files e.g. thumbs, the "common" folder and I
also (?) the core files such as editor.swf, XMLengine.swf etc.

 

Would it not make sense for all the shared files to be kept in one location
so that we avoid a situation in which the various copies of the files that
currently exist get out of synch with each other? If the Toolkits release is
using earlier versions of swf files that have been modified in the desktop
Xerte then this is going to create anomalies during testing, since the
models were developed in the desktop environment.

 

Where then are we to keep them?

 

The testing of the XOT beta is raising the need to make some changes to xwd
files and possibly also some model files. I don't want to start making these
changes whilst there is ambiguity as to which set of files to work from.

 

Personally I have no preference as to where they are kept. I think Tom may
have a view on this.

 

Currently there are copies of the new xwd and rlm files in

 

xerte svn / runtime/pages /

xerte svn / pageWizards/models (rlms) and pageWizards/en-gb (xwds)

XOT svn/ modules/xerte/parent_templates/Nottingham/models (rlms) and wizards
(xwds)

 

Kind regards

 

Johnathan

 

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