Re: [Phpslash-devel] Re: Please test this Release Candidate

[Mike G. <mi...@op...>]

Hi Joe,

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 07:42, Joe Stewart wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:23:31AM -0500, Mike Gifford wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 15:15, joe wrote:
> > > There are a few differences in this and the current cvs:
> > > PHPLIB is preinstalled by default.  You shouldn't have to make any changes 
> > > or download PHPLIB.  It is possible to point to another installation if 
> > > required.
> > That's excellent..  What version did you end up using?
> straight from php-lib-stable cvs.
> Also since this email php4 sessions are used by default.

Excellent.

> > Is the default the original config.php that came with it or the
> > config.ini.php and also renamed config.php.
> Throughout the day yesterday this was a moving target.  I had left the 
> -dist ones and deleted the old config.php and documented installation this 
> way.
> This release has config-dist.php duplicated in config.php.  So you are 
> required to use the ini file.  The documentation has not been updated yet 
> and probably won't be until the files in cvs agree.

Getting rid of the old config.php is likely the right decision.  Options
aren't always a good thing.

However, it might make sense to just remove the config-dist.php and
rename config-dist.ini.php to config.ini.php as well.  Although it was
nice to have the config.ini.php not be in the distribution so that you
don't accidentally delete this when upgrading to the next release.....  

> > Couple other points that occurred to me when I was installing it (on RH8
> > - php-4.2.2-8.0.5, httpd-2.0.40-11, mysql-3.23.52-3) 
> > Do the references to phpslash-ft & /home/leingang/src/phpslash-ft/ in
> > the ini make any sense..
> no and I had changed them to /path/to but in the flurry of commits missed 
> this.  The config-dist.ini.php is changed from cvs in this regard.

Great.

> > I would think that most folks would be installing to something like this
> > when they first download the code:
> > ;; The complete filesystem path to the pages
> > basedir = "/home/localhost/phpslash-0.7alpha/public_html"
> > ;;
> > ;; The complete filesystem path to the class directory
> > classdir = "/home/localhost/phpslash-0.7alpha/class"
> > ;;
> > ;; The base URL for the phpslash site
> > rooturl = "http://localhost/public_html"
> > 
> I don't know that I agree.  If we have a .deb or .rpm they will follow the 
> LSB and be /var/www/ or /usr/share/ or something.

Yup..  either of these would be great and make sense.  What was there
seemed to be unique to one developer (which although interesting is less
useful). What you did in the latest release is fine to..

> > <snip>
> > ;; directory where PHPLIB classes and functions can be found 
> > phplibdir = "/home/localhost/phpslash-0.7alpha/class/phplib/php/"
> This one should be commented out since PHPLIB is already installed and 
> configured.  I changed the path to /classdir/phplib/php/.

It was commented out.  But had some initial problems setting it up
(typos)..  Anyways, good to know that this is to be depreciated too as
it limits the things that users can mis-type.  I'm assuming that if you
uncomment it it overrules the choice of phplib paths.

<snip>

> > Also, I couldn't read the docs.. Not sure what to read this in.. 
> > Browser didn't work, Open Office didn't work, etc..  Nothing in the
> > README about this format either.   How am I supposed to read these docs
> > (maybe I'm just too tired):
> > 	doc/html/*.sgml 
> Well you just explained why the tarball dropped by 100k yesterday.
> I'm a doofus.  It should be better now.  The docs are in .html and .txt.

:)

> The phpslash.sgml is a SGML file used to generate the differing formats.  
> Lyx reads them pretty well.  Haven't tried OO.org on them but I thought 
> there was supposed to be a similar mode for it.

Might be an import mode..  

> > Those are my comments..  Let me know if I'm not clear on something.. 
> > Have to dig into this for Back-end now..
> Thanks.  I had gotten in a hurry and introduced a few problems.  So give 
> it another try.

I set up the latest one.  Looks good..  I'd say it's ready to send to
the users list for review..

I suspect that the A record isn't right in your zone as this isn't
coming up with anything:
	http://phpslash.org/

There was a change a little while ago at how sf manages their domains..

Mike
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