[WWdevel] Fwd: GDBM compatibility

[Michael G. <ga...@ma...>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Michael Gage <ga...@ma...>
> Date: September 1, 2005 8:52:54 AM EDT (CA)
> To: Sam Hathaway <sh...@ma...>
> Cc: Michael Gage <ga...@ma...>
> Subject: Re: problem sets
>
>
>
> On Sep 1, 2005, at 1:10 AM, Sam Hathaway wrote:
>
>> On Aug 31, 2005, at 21:28, Michael Gage wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi Sam,
>>>
>>> If you get a chance could you build a gdbm database   course and  
>>> see if we somehow introduced a bug in
>>> the gdbm database handling somewhere around version 2.1.3?  I  
>>> haven't seen it on hosted, but who knows?
>>>
>>
>> Sure, no problem.
> I looked at this a little bit.  The HEAD of cvs generates many  
> errors just in creating set 0 with a gdbm database:
>
> field set.0.assignment_type is not defined. at /home/gage/webwork/ 
> webwork-modperl/lib/WeBWorK/ContentGenerator/Instructor/ 
> ProblemSetList.pm line 1846.
>
> and so forth.
>
> I don't think we want to do all the back porting that would be  
> necessary to
> have the gateway quiz module run on gdbm.  So the question becomes
> how far back to we have to go to have scripts that are compatible  
> with gdbm.
>
> I suggest starting with the version 2.1.3  which we established in  
> June, just
> before we added the code for the gateway quizzes. Establish a  
> branch there
> and put in the patches needed to make it run reasonably well with  
> gdbm.
>
> Versions after 2.1.3 will not support gdbm or sql database modes at  
> all.
>
> Take care,
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>> -sam
>>
>>
>
> "Only dead fish swim with the stream."
>
>

"Only dead fish swim with the stream."