[Xerte-dev] Re: Players and alternative formats

Tom Reijnders reijnders at tor.nl
Thu Nov 22 10:00:26 GMT 2012


and trunk is newer than 1.8...

Op 22-11-2012 10:52, Julian Tenney schreef:
>
> Trunk is the zip
>
> *From:*xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Pat 
> Lockley
> *Sent:* 22 November 2012 09:01
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Players and alternative formats
>
> Maybe I crossed my own wires
>
> Is 1.8 the zip, or is trunk the zip?
>
> Last time trunk was the zip and 1.8 was the next version?
>
> On 22 Nov 2012, at 07:23, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl 
> <mailto:reijnders at tor.nl>> wrote:
>
>     We are, aren't we? We do have a 1.8 branch.
>     And we should make a branch for the december 7 release. And fixes
>     should go in there as well as trunk.
>
>     It is a bit unfortunate that your branch is called 1.9, that
>     should have been pats_1.9. But, we can work around that, perhaps
>     even renaming your branch.
>
>     Tom
>
>     Op 22-11-2012 0:06, Pat Lockley schreef:
>
>         Also, should we move to a more formal trunk way of working
>         where the branches are old releases?
>
>         On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Pat Lockley
>         <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
>         <mailto:patrick.lockley at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>         I don't get the process here though and there is a lot of core
>         I can't test - no ldap, no multiuser and sharing and so on.
>         Could the sandbox switch to 1.9?
>
>         Alternatively, I could commit into 1.8 as I suspect I've
>         changed maybe 10 files (if that)
>
>
>         On 21 Nov 2012, at 22:32, Julian Tenney
>         <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
>         <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>         > well, I think it will be for you to attempt to merge, and
>         when you have code in files that have changed since you
>         branched, it's going to be down to you to make sure your new
>         code doesn't break anything that has changed since you
>         branched. I don't think too much has - you can also get a log
>         of each file so you can step through changes that have been
>         mde to that file. I'm guessing that to ull this off, you'll
>         have changed some core stuff, but I don't know how much. From
>         our point ofview the only thing that has changed is the html5
>         stuff, and that is mostly client side. My own changes are
>         client side, but might have fixed the odd PHP thing.
>         >
>         > Ron, Tom and David are the most likely to be able to comment
>         on any PHP changes since 1.8 they have made.
>         >
>         > Probably worth trying at first into a dummy folder or
>         something 'safe', just to see how things pan out?
>         > ________________________________________
>         > From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>         <mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>         [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>         <mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf
>         Of Pat Lockley [patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
>         <mailto:patrick.lockley at googlemail.com>]
>         > Sent: 21 November 2012 17:47
>         > To: For Xerte technical developers
>         > Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Players and alternative formats
>         >
>         > i've never merged before........
>         >
>         >
>         > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Julian Tenney
>         <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
>         <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk><mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
>         <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>>> wrote:
>         > I don't think so. LTI just lets you open a door into the
>         application.
>         >
>         > I'd rather deal with this now, than later when it's more
>         complicated.
>         >
>         > Why not try merging, and see if it looks gribbly?
>         >
>         > 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
>         <mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>>
>         [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
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>         <mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>>] On Behalf
>         Of Pat Lockley
>         > Sent: 21 November 2012 16:36
>         >
>         > To: For Xerte technical developers
>         > Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Players and alternative formats
>         >
>         > Could do, and just leave out the new modules?
>         >
>         > The changes I discussed don't exist in 1.9 just yet - would
>         later in week.
>         >
>         > I need to list what's changed for the purposes of testing,
>         but am a bit worried that since the 1.9 branch was made a lot
>         of new stuff has joined 1.8 (LTI for example) and I might undo
>         some stuff? I can't see it clashing, but....
>         >
>         > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Julian Tenney
>         <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
>         <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk><mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
>         <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>>> wrote:
>         > Why don't you merge in your mod stuff, it won't make a lot
>         of odds to most people, but will allow some cool stuff
>         later... most people won't see any difference, right?
>         >
>         >
>         > 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
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>         [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
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>         <mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>>] On Behalf
>         Of Pat Lockley
>         > Sent: 21 November 2012 15:53
>         >
>         > To: For Xerte technical developers
>         > Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Players and alternative formats
>         >
>         > i could, but is the php in 1.8 svn?
>         >
>         > It isn't a lot of php (an if statement or two)
>         >
>         > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Julian Tenney
>         <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
>         <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk><mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
>         <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>>> wrote:
>         > Could you do the php side? In the wizard we can add a
>         parameter to the LO playback="flash" which can be updated to
>         playback="html" for people who want to experiment with the beta.
>         >
>         > Then in the wizard we can do
>         >
>         > If (set as flash or undefined) //do it flash style
>         >
>         > Else
>         >
>         > //do it html5 style
>         >
>         > Appreciate the flash side is probably easier than the PHP
>         side...
>         >
>         > 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
>         <mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>>
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>         <mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>>] On Behalf
>         Of Pat Lockley
>         > Sent: 21 November 2012 14:45
>         >
>         > To: For Xerte technical developers
>         > Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Players and alternative formats
>         >
>         > -- Flash side --
>         >
>         > put a radio button in the editor
>         > add an extra parameter to the url generation code (event
>         handler for the play button)
>         >
>         > -- php side --
>         >
>         > Edit preview and play .php to check for this new $_GET and
>         then branch
>         >
>         > -- .htaccess side --
>         >
>         > Mod the reg exp
>         >
>         > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Julian Tenney
>         <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
>         <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk><mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
>         <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>>> wrote:
>         > Time is of the essence for the 1.9 drop because we want to
>         get that done by 30th November, so I like what you're saying,
>         but wonder if it can be done in time...?
>         >
>         > 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
>         <mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>>
>         [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
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>         <mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>>] On Behalf
>         Of Pat Lockley
>         > Sent: 21 November 2012 13:29
>         >
>         > To: For Xerte technical developers
>         > Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Players and alternative formats
>         >
>         > Well it depends on what we call "now"
>         >
>         >
>         > It's a bit roadmappy, but for 1.9 you'd not have
>         html_play.php and play.php, but one play.php which would then
>         switch on the variable set (within the module folder).
>         >
>         > You'd have an option somewhere of setting "HTML5" somehow
>         (perhaps a radio box on the editor?) which would then send a
>         request to set this session to be "HTML5" and all previews
>         from then on would be HTML5 mode.
>         >
>         > Then you add an extension to the current play rule in
>         htaccess to support a "third" variable, so play_560_html would
>         play the template in HTML5 mode. In the future, play_560_scorm
>         would do the scorm export. As long as play_560_[a-z]+ was
>         handled in the php play code for that module you could do
>         whatever you wanted to do.
>         >
>         > In theory you could also have preview_560_html as well
>         >
>         > It seems neater to me, but this is me speaking from my cave.
>         >
>         > Oooh a flint.
>         >
>         > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Julian Tenney
>         <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
>         <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk><mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
>         <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>>> wrote:
>         > I like to generalise solutions too. What would the
>         implications be for what we have now?
>         >
>         > 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
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>         <mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>>] On Behalf
>         Of Pat Lockley
>         > Sent: 21 November 2012 12:43
>         > To: For Xerte technical developers
>         > Subject: [Xerte-dev] Players and alternative formats
>         >
>         > Hello all,
>         >
>         > This is a message from deep inside modularisation caves so
>         it might not apply to all.
>         >
>         > I have a semi working google maps making template, and when
>         it "plays" at present it draws a map using the google maps AP
>
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