[Xerte-dev] Re: Fancy it

[Smith, John]

Well we all know that but guys like RonM2 who need specific functionality have no other way to do it.. then ended up locked at v1.7 for a while... i'm in the process of rewriting Xenith to use a pub/sub approach and at some point I will probably revisit the plugins idea as there are many other areas that i'd like to provide hook points...

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 Pat L (pgogy) [xerte at pgogywebstuff.com]
Sent: 01 May 2014 12:10
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Fancy it

Question is trade off of modifications vs "You need to upgrade" problems
Logically plugins solves this - you shouldn't really play with core


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Smith, John <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk<mailto:J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk>> wrote:
I think for some areas it would be great, mainly the modules folder which contains a lot of client side stuff like xenith and scorms stuff. Problems with them often sit dormant until a particular page model or browser is used...

I think Ron has made a good point aginst this in the past for a blanket auto update though in that people have tweaked some of the php files to do speciic things and we could break some peoples installs. I think that was my idea around having Wordpress style hooks in xerte. It means people can keep their code seperate from the core and then, if properly managed, their code should work on newer versions.

Regards,

John Smith | Learning Technologist
Room A251, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences | Glasgow Caledonian University
Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA

Please address ALL support requests to hlsblt at gcu.ac.uk<mailto:hlsblt at gcu.ac.uk> where one of the School Learning Technologists will pick up the job. This will ensure that all jobs are completed as promptly as possible.
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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 L (pgogy) [xerte at pgogywebstuff.com<mailto:xerte at pgogywebstuff.com>]
Sent: 30 April 2014 21:25
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Fancy it

http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/233-Automatic-Update-of-Packages-from-Version-Control-Repositories.html

auto update from git?

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