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Abstracting CW

2003-11-15
2003-11-18
  • William Jones

    William Jones - 2003-11-15

    Hello,

    We've set up the excellent Postgres port and it works very well.  As I've begun to dig around in CW I've noticed that there's a lot of Stanford network systems deeply embedded in the application.  Formats for userids, courseids, etc. are designed into the table field definitions and probably error-checked in the servlets.  How are people dealing with this as they bring up test systems?  Is there discussion of making this SourceForge version into a more abstracted system that can be easily modified?

    Thanks,
    Bill Jones
    Augsburg College

     
    • Ian Boston

      Ian Boston - 2003-11-16

      Yes,
      there is a lot od stanford specific stuf in the center. In the past we have addressed it by cusomising the validation, and reusing the filelds where appropriate. The danger with taking this too far is what happens on the the release of version 3. Do we report from oracle to postgress, or do we upgrade from postgres 2.5 to 3.0. At 2.5 we reported.

      Ian

       
    • Sam Ottenhoff

      Sam Ottenhoff - 2003-11-18

      Does anyone have anonymous CVS access to Stanford's repository to implement bug fixes as they come instead of having to deal with re-porting/upgrading? 

      Also, I think upgrading (applying the recursive diffs from Stanford 2.5 to 3.0) is a better solution than reporting.

       

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