[Xerte] Re: Can't get export to work

[David Goodwin]

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> But it may be more difficult for teachers. Hence my suggestiond to turn the package into an RPM and put it in some repository. Then, whenever a newer version appears, we distribute the (tested...) RPM to the repository, and subsequently yum (or the debian updater or what-have-you installer) will erompt Jane Enduser who simply can click 'update' to get the updates installed. As you can include scripts in the RPM to run before and/or after the installation, these could check what type of installation is required. Could even do the migration stuff (if need be) like converting databases etc.
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I'd expect the problem being that to support Linux well, you'd need RPMs for RedHat+SuSE, and .deb's which work on Debian and Ubuntu.

I can create .deb's (and therefore rpms) which just effectively extract to /var/www/whatever or equivalent - what's difficult is handling the configuration of Xerte - e.g. making it truly one click through creation of a database, configuring database.php and so on.



>> I personally just point my web server at 'trunk' or 'branches/1.8' depending on what I'm doing.
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> I haven't checked the svn repository yet, as that typically contains the aforementioned 'bleeding edge' bugfilled latest and greatest stuff which I typically don't want to run to create LO's - and that is where my focus lies right now.
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Yes, that's probably mostly my fault, but we've also only just moved to having a 1.8 branch and so on.


>> Perhaps I'll sort out selenium + jenkins on it soon, I'm not sure if 
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> Never heard of it, just googled it. Ah, yes, but then you'd replace your worries w/regard to Flash with worries w/regard to Java. Never liked that language much, pardon my bias.
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You don't need any knowledge of Java.
Yourself (or whoever) would just need to record selenium test suites. You would do this from within your web browser and can run them from within the web browser itself (i.e. you click on a play button and Firefox goes bonkers fetching loads of URLs and you hopefully see lots of green ticks and no red failures).

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> BTW: I like the look-and-feel of XOL, but can't help thinking "this could be done with HTML5 too and that would not require all these flashy nasty tools". Ah, yes, like you: if I only had time, if I only had time..
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Probably. It's beyond my abilities however. I'm only a PHP programmer. I don't know/understand/wish to learn flash, and HTML5 would still give platform issues (i.e. all those who are using IE6/7/8(?)).

David.

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