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Re: [WWdevel] Fwd: GDBM compatibility
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From: Arnold P. <ap...@ma...> - 2005-09-01 16:30:56
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<html> <body> At 08:54 AM 9/1/2005, Michael Gage wrote:<br><br> <br> How about having the admin course in versions <font face="Courier, Courier">2.1.3 and above create only sql -single databases and not mention databases at all.<br><br> </font>Arnie<br><br> <br><br> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Begin forwarded message:<br><br> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""> <font face="Helvetica, Helvetica"><b>From: </b>Michael Gage <<a href="mailto:ga...@ma...">ga...@ma...</a> ><br> <b>Date: </b>September 1, 2005 8:52:54 AM EDT (CA)<br> <b>To: </b>Sam Hathaway <<a href="mailto:sh...@ma..."> sh...@ma...</a>><br> <b>Cc: </b>Michael Gage <<a href="mailto:ga...@ma...">ga...@ma...</a> ><br> <b>Subject: Re: problem sets<br> </b></font><br><br> <br> On Sep 1, 2005, at 1:10 AM, Sam Hathaway wrote:<br><br> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Aug 31, 2005, at 21:28, Michael Gage wrote:<br><br> <br> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi Sam,<br><br> If you get a chance could you build a gdbm database course and see if we somehow introduced a bug in<br> the gdbm database handling somewhere around version 2.1.3? I haven't seen it on hosted, but who knows?<br> </blockquote><br> Sure, no problem.</blockquote>I looked at this a little bit. The HEAD of cvs generates many errors just in creating set 0 with a gdbm database:<br><br> <font face="Courier, Courier">field set.0.assignment_type is not defined. at /home/gage/webwork/webwork-modperl/lib/WeBWorK/ContentGenerator/Instructor/ProblemSetList.pm line 1846.<br><br> and so forth.<br><br> I don't think we want to do all the back porting that would be necessary to<br> have the gateway quiz module run on gdbm. So the question becomes<br> how far back to we have to go to have scripts that are compatible with gdbm.<br><br> I suggest starting with the version 2.1.3 which we established in June, just <br> before we added the code for the gateway quizzes. Establish a branch there <br> and put in the patches needed to make it run reasonably well with gdbm.<br><br> Versions after 2.1.3 will not support gdbm or sql database modes at all.<br><br> Take care,<br><br> Mike<br><br> <br><br> </font><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">-sam<br><br> </blockquote><br> "Only dead fish swim with the stream."<br><br> </blockquote><br> "Only dead fish swim with the stream."<br><br> </blockquote> <x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep> Prof. Arnold K. Pizer <br> Dept. of Mathematics <br> University of Rochester <br> Rochester, NY 14627 <br> (585) 275-7767<br> </body> </html> |
