[Xerte-dev] Re: Stilla bit confused about how to add new properties

Julian Tenney Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
Tue Nov 6 10:00:04 GMT 2012


I think so too. The question I am asking is whether the day has come to sever the link between the two pieces of software. We have to at some point. I want to get to a place where the two svns are not dependent on each other. If files are used in both repositories, they should be duplicated, so that the toolkits version of, say, the xmlengine can develop as it needs to, and the xerte version can do whatever it needs to as well.

I'd be happy to do that today to be honest.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 06 November 2012 09:58
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Stilla bit confused about how to add new properties

HI Julian

I think if more was made of the fact that XOT can almost be a stand alone application using XAMPP then there would be no need for Xerte. When I first started looking at Xerte I went for the executable simply because I thought that setting up a server, configuring mysql etc would just be too much hassle to test it when in actual fact installing XOT using XAMPP is arguably just as fast...

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 9:50 AM
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Stilla bit confused about how to add new properties

Hi,

I'm still not entirely clear on how I best add a new optional property to a number of models in the xwd files. In the past I would have added them to the big xwd file, but I am not sure how I add them to small .xwd files and then create the big one.

Second related question: is there any point trying to maintain this link between xerte and toolkits? This is a good example of something taking me longer to do because of the backward compatibility than it needs to.

Julian




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