[Xerte-dev] Re: Question about workflow when working with the Xerte branch code

[Smith, John]

Hi,

Many thanks to everyone who has responded with details about their development setup and it's kind of what I thought anyway that everyone would do things differently depending on what they are working on. I think I'll collate some of the stuff together and make a 'Getting Started' document for the Community site so that anyone else new coming on board can get an idea of what others do. I'll not name anyone in main body of this document (unless you want me to) and just make it generic in case any of it could be used to identify any potential security loopholes, etc. We can always add names at the end if required.

Tom - I've not settled on a dev environment yet so yes, if there is potentially a licence available for phpStorm then I wouldn't mind trying it out. Usually I use Eclipse or just TextPad but want to make best use of the time i'll be able to devote to this project. Please contact me off list at jjs (at) gcu.ac.uk

Regards,

John Smith | Learning Technologist
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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders [reijnders at tor.nl]
Sent: 20 October 2012 19:05
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Question about workflow when working with the Xerte branch code

Hi John,

For Xerte2, if you change the .fla files, please don't check those in,
or make sure you have flash 8 lying around. Otherwise The Nottingham
people can't do anything with that anymore.

For XOT, you can't use a svn checkout directly. You have to export the
svn to a server.  That is what I tend to do.

I just asked Simon what development environment he uses, and he uses
phpstorm.

We have a license of that, ask me, if you want a copy.

I've just started setting it up, and so far I am impressed (after it's
setup correctly, which takes some time)

1. Local svn copy on local machine
2. Deploy on remote server (linux in my case)
3. Debug remote server, through ide
4. Update and commit directly from the IDE.

Tom

Op 20-10-2012 17:25, Smith, John schreef:
> Hi,
>
> Looking for a bit of advice here about how you all work on developing the trunk code.
>
> I've only been working on the Xenith code so far, but have just checked it out and then copied to the webroot so that I can run it from localhost. However when it comes to XOT there's slightly more needs done to take care of permissions and possibly update to the database. Now I'm going to have xot installed on a server back in Glasgow but want to work on improving the code if required and this is where i'm wondering what other people do...
>
> Do you check the source out of the SVN straight onto a server (or to a laptop/desktop to work on and copy from there to the server) and then what do you do each time you do this to make sure everything still runs? I'm assuming that most people will have a stable production server running the branch and then have a development one either on the same server or locally on a desktop/laptop - am I right?
>
> Also, regarding desktop Xerte, what tools do I need to run/compile the source for this? Just Flex or anything else?
>
> I'd rather get this right from the start so that I can spend more time developing rather than debugging my setup problems so any advice welcome!!
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith | Learning Technologist
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