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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Confused :-(<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I have XOT running on a number of different servers with 5.3.3 also 5.3.10 - probably later too?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Smith, John<br><b>Sent:</b> 10 July 2013 12:48<br><b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Version 2.1<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>The commonly used mysql_* functions are deprecated… we’ll need to change a lot of code to use mysqli_* for php 5.3+ support…<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>John Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Learning Technologist<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>School of Health & Life Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Glasgow Caledonian University<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 10, 2013 11:19 AM<br><b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Version 2.1<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span> MySQL is dying out in php 5.3<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What does that mean?<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Pat @ Pgogy <br><b>Sent:</b> 09 July 2013 20:10<br><b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Version 2.1<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I would give 2.1 a miss as a number<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Reasoning<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>A lot of the code is quite old and could do with a once over, spring clean<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>When writing the API we could make all the Ajax end points into API end points<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>MySQL is dying out in php 5.3 so bits of the install and the code will stop working<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Make management side easier <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Neaten up root, which is cluttered up now<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I think bundling things like site details into site options makes sense as a bigger number change <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Then we could have a more reliable framework for moving forward <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Plugins / API end points / themes - so developers can easily add in new things without worrying about core<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On 9 Jul 2013, at 13:53, "Smith, John" <<a href="mailto:J.J.Smith@gcu.ac.uk">J.J.Smith@gcu.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I think the community might be expecting .1 increments now… API will be done long before the HTML Wizard so it would be good to do incremental releases and we need to sort out the sitedetails vs site_options horizontal/vertical database thing and do a small release…</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>If we wait until v3.0 then no one will update until then as there will have been no ‘BIG LAUNCH’ and instead of being 3 releases away (1.7-2.0) they will be further!!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>From memory we’ll have:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Stuff nearly there:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Plugins (soonish - hopefully)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>App Store/Extend (almost there if not already)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>API (soon)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Longer terms stuff:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>HTML Wizard (3-6 months away at least)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Theme (?? Dunno)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Experience/Tin-Can API (6-12 months??)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Plus we have a lot of bugfixes in v2.0 since release – people won’t update unless they think they need to… but perhaps Tom could organize this to automate v2.0.1 etc and possibly even v2.1-9</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Anyway… ramble over…</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>John Smith</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Learning Technologist</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>School of Health & Life Sciences</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Glasgow Caledonian University</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 09, 2013 9:49 AM<br><b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers (<a href="mailto:xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>)<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Version 2.1</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best start new thread on this topic: what and when for 2.1?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>With all the automated builds, it really helps – there isn’t so much of a need to push all the fixes into a release, so we could stick with 2.0 and think about 3.0, which would be:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>API<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>HTML Wizard<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>New theme / branding / look and feel (we’ve started looking at this)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>+?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But there is a lot of work in there…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thoughts?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p>This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. 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