[Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8

[Thomas Rochford]

I'm planning to wait until it's 'official'. It works fine at present on
the ones I've made for testing, but I'ld rather wait for the official
version. MAXOS 180 will also include Moodle 2.2.x, but I've had some
problems with Mahara so I may drop that.

Possible 25% cutback in funding for RSC-Eastern also means my future is
somewhat uncertain, too.

Kindest regards, Thomas
Sent from my Windows Phone
From: Pat Lockley
Sent: 05/07/2012 15:55
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8
When will MAXOS move over?

Should we try asking the normals on the main list?

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Thomas Rochford
<thomas.rochford at jiscadvance.ac.uk> wrote:
> I'm planning to do a first time install on July 20th for Suffolk Association
> of Voluntary Organisations - http://www.savo.co.uk.
>
> Kindest regards, Thomas
>
> ________________________________
> From: Pat Lockley
> Sent: Thu, 05/07/2012 11:49
> To: For Xerte technical developers <xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8
>
> How many people have tried a fresh install from trunk? That'd be Q1
>
> The rest seems fine - I would guess it would work, bar the accounts
> for OSLS (might be legacy), and the student in Health Sciences.
> Index.php has if else on the login statements checking for usernames
> and the like - I think there was 3 special cases.
>
> Things to consider - whether dragging the folders in alters any
> permissions on the files?
>
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Julian Tenney
> wrote:
>> I'm unsure about the curveball stuff, where it is and what to do with it.
>>
>> Was going to do this:
>>
>> - Export the trunk to an 'install' folder on my desktop
>> - Move existing files from the server to that install folder, overwriting
>> the svn files with config / settings specific to our install.
>> - Which files are those?
>> - Back up existing server files to another folder, so I can easily revert
>> should things go screwy
>> - Delete everything on the server.
>> - Copy desktop 'install' folder onto server
>> - Happy days. USER-FILES are in a different place, accessed through a
>> symbolic link, so no need to worry about those.
>>
>> Chance of success??
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
>> Sent: 05 July 2012 11:19
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Upgrading to 1.8
>>
>> Speaking as Chief of Legacy code for XOT at Nottingham - don't forget
>> all the crazy curveball settings for people who left, people without
>> accounts, people with odd names stuck in the code. (mostly in
>> index.php)
>> I'd do a test version on LTDEV first for 1.8
>>
>> (but see early q about where the config table is?)
>>
>> As a suggestion.
>>
>> Get Unix bod to alter time stamps on all the files outside user-files.
>> Then drop over the top. All files with the old date are spurious. Then
>> delete those.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Julian Tenney
>> wrote:
>>> I'd like to move our setup to 1.8 here: we've implemented some local
>>> changes
>>> whilst development's been going on in the trunk, and things are getting a
>>> bit out of synch, and I'm going to end up getting in a mess if I try and
>>> bring all the various things into line bit by bit.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We'll also have a working and reasonably busy install running 1.8 and any
>>> outstanding issues will quickly surface...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> So, $64m question: I can upgrade going over the top. I'd quite like to
>>> make
>>> a clean set of files, i.e. backup the existing files; delete the files
>>> from
>>> the folder on the web server, drop in the new files, and then go, so I'm
>>> not
>>> left with a load of old files lying around that I'm not sure what to do
>>> with: but I need to keep our config files etc.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> How best to proceed? We should also write this up so others can follow a
>>> simple set of instructions.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I should probably wait until a quiet ish time of the week to do this, and
>>> it would be good if you guys were around for help, should I need it...
>>>
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