Re: [WWdevel] jsMath v2.0 and WeBWorK

[Sam H. <sh...@ma...>]

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On Aug 18, 2005, at 15:04, John Jones wrote:

>>> I guess right now I'd go for extracting the tarball manually.
>>
>> That is my inclination as well.  Unless I hear additional dissent,  
>> I'll go ahead and do that.  John, if you still have a strong  
>> preference for individual files, let me know.
>
> No, it isn't that strong.  Definitely go ahead and do the tarball.
> Would the added difficulty only affect cvs users?  If you bundle a  
> release, maybe it can have the jsMath fonts unpacked before  
> creating the main tarball.
>
> If it turns into a faq, then maybe something can be added to the  
> admin course to check some of the system configuration items, with  
> this being one thing which gets checked.

We want the tarballs to be updateable with CVS, so if someone did  
update, they'd get a new jsMath_fonts.tar.gz file that they would  
have to unpack. It's possible to have the code in webwork.apache- 
config (or in a webwork-startup.pl that would be PerlRequired) issue  
a warning if the tarball is newer than the individual files. It's  
relatively uninvasive and would only add overhead at server startup.
- -sam

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