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

[Fay Cross]

I was just about to email about the change I made...

The update was because I noticed that some optional properties on the jmol page had gone missing.  I've added them back in but comparing the two xwds from the two repositories they are different in quite a few places.  The xerte repository version has none of the pageIDs in that I haven't seen before but are now in the Toolkits repository version.  Also, the Toolkits version has a lot of 'defaultValue' attributes added in which were never in there before - are these needed on everything now?

This is all getting very confusing!

I will look at the jmol & embedDiv problems from the spreadsheet.  These were working a while ago - I still have a copy of the version where they were working in xampp on my machine.  I take it the version we are testing is a copy of the current files in svn?

Julian's not in today by the way.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 20 April 2012 11:13
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Location of xwd and rlm files in the svn(s) plus any other shared files

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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