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[Bodington-developers] Report on Open Source/Standards VLE

[Adam M. <ada...@co...>]

Dear All,

Some of you may be interested in a new report entitled (deliberately
controversial, of course):

'Finally a free lunch: the benefits of an open source VLE/LMS'

at: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/vle/index.xml.ID=news

In short it brings together some of our experiences at Oxford over the
past two years of running Bodington (http://bodington.org), the open
source VLE developed at Leeds University. This is purely meant to report
the benefits we have experienced for others to read and
follow-up/digest/dismiss as they see fit.

I'm afraid the 'Bodington Buzz' workshop on the 4th July ('Free Tools and
the VLE') is now completely full. However, if you wish to be added to a
waiting list for a future re-run of the event then please email me
off-list,

Yours

Stuart Lee

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[Bodington-developers] cvs HEAD

[Antony C. <an...@sm...>]

Hi I'm (finally) about to merge our branch with HEAD, can someone 
confirm that in the last week these are only changes on head? Is 
WEB-INF/dtd no longer required (files moved to servlet/template)?
For the rest of today could people not commit to HEAD please.
Cheers,
Ant

Re: [Bodington-developers] cvs HEAD

[Matthew B. <mat...@co...>]

Antony Corfield wrote:
> Hi I'm (finally) about to merge our branch with HEAD, can someone 
> confirm that in the last week these are only changes on head? Is 
> WEB-INF/dtd no longer required (files moved to servlet/template)?

I had some change to eliminate the dependancy on the System property 
"bodington.home" that went in recently but these didn't change any 
templates.

The only other change was toe Xml.sql that was an attempt to fix a 
problem with MSSQL server (support request).

> For the rest of today could people not commit to HEAD please.

Ok.


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+--Matthew Buckett-----------------------------------------+
| VLE Developer, Learning Technologies Group               |
| Tel: +44 (0) 1865 283660 http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/       |
+------------Computing Services, University of Oxford------+

Re: [Bodington-developers] cvs HEAD

[Antony C. <an...@sm...>]

> Antony Corfield wrote:
>> Hi I'm (finally) about to merge our branch with HEAD, can someone 
>> confirm that in the last week these are only changes on head? Is 
>> WEB-INF/dtd no longer required (files moved to servlet/template)?

Yep, is this where these files now live i.e. are we removing dtd 
directory?

> I had some change to eliminate the dependancy on the System property 
> "bodington.home" that went in recently but these didn't change any 
> templates.

That's fine Matthew, just don't want to (accidently) overwrite your 
commits!
Cheers

>
> The only other change was toe Xml.sql that was an attempt to fix a 
> problem with MSSQL server (support request).
>
>> For the rest of today could people not commit to HEAD please.
>
> Ok.
>
>
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Re: [Bodington-developers] cvs HEAD

[Matthew B. <mat...@co...>]

Antony Corfield wrote:
>> Antony Corfield wrote:
>>
>>> Hi I'm (finally) about to merge our branch with HEAD, can someone 
>>> confirm that in the last week these are only changes on head? Is 
>>> WEB-INF/dtd no longer required (files moved to servlet/template)?
> 
> 
> Yep, is this where these files now live i.e. are we removing dtd directory?

CVS doesn't allow you to remove directories. The way most clients work 
is if a directory is empty it is removed so when you do a "cvs update" 
unless you have some uncommited files in the dtd directory (or you 
client isn't configures to prune empty folders) it shoudl disapear.

>> I had some change to eliminate the dependancy on the System property 
>> "bodington.home" that went in recently but these didn't change any 
>> templates.
> 
> 
> That's fine Matthew, just don't want to (accidently) overwrite your 
> commits!

Unless your cvs client doesn't warn you about a attempting to commit a 
file that hasn't yet been updated this shouldn't happen.

Eg:

If we both have version 1.4 of index.html then I commit some changes 
back (now I and the repository have 1.5) then you attempt to commit some 
changes back your client should warn you that you havn't yet pulled in 
the changes between 1.4 and 1.5. If your client doesn't do this get a 
new client (command line one does).

Happy commiting ;-)

-- 
+--Matthew Buckett-----------------------------------------+
| VLE Developer, Learning Technologies Group               |
| Tel: +44 (0) 1865 283660 http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/       |
+------------Computing Services, University of Oxford------+