Re: [Slashcode-development] Some experiences in the migration to 2.0

[Chris N. <pu...@po...>]

At 19:31 +0200 2001.04.20, Alvaro del Castillo wrote:
>I have spent some days to migrate our modified database to slash 2.0.
>With the slash1toslash2 script all seems to be migrated well but in my
>installation, Debian Potato, the version of MySQL 3.22.32 doesn't
>support the MySQL command:
>
>CREATE newstories SELECT * FROM stories

Ack.  Well, realize two things:

* Slash 2.2 will almost certainly require MySQL 3.23
* Upgrading from 3.22 to 3.23 is very very easy (in my experience, and in
the words of others)

Of course, if you are using Debian packages and don't want to change that,
you're kinda stuck until Debian comes out with a 3.23 package (which maybe
they have ... ?).


>The solution is easy. Not destroy the table and use:
>
>INSERT INTO newstories SELECT * FROM stories

That sounds OK to me.  I'll look into it.



>I am playing now with the templates and its customization for sections.
>It works quite well. It's fantastic to change the feel of a section
>creating a template for it.

Yeah!  I did a lot of the work setting up the template system, but even I
was kinda blown away when I first started using it to customize
http://use.perl.org/.  I wanted a common copyright notice, so I created a
"useperlcopyright" template and put a few INCLUDE directives in the
templates, and boom!  I really like the system we've come up with, it's
turned out better than I imagined, so far.


>But there is a problem. The template-tool doesn't work right. When you
>use: template-tool -s index;index;gnome it updates the
>index;index;default !!! :-(

template-tool gets its information not from the filename, but for the
information embedded in the template.  Chances are the section in the file
is labelled "default".  Please confirm that this is the case.  Thanks,

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