[WWdevel] Re: Library browser -- version 2

[John J. <jj...@as...>]

Michael Gage wrote:

> What is the status of the library and the library browser?  Is it  
> ready for the rest of the developers to start using the version 2 of 
> the library browser and to update the  library? or do you have an 
> estimate as to when would be a good time for the rest of us to do  this? 

Please, try it out.  My only caveat has to do with compatibility with 
version 1.

The new version does not have all of the same problems the older version 
had.  Some may have been duplicates which were pruned.  Others may have 
been moved.  I plan to figure out where they all went, but this means 
set definition files created with the original version may point to 
places which don't exist in the current version.

You cannot have a course which accesses both since the link 
"templates/Library" points to the top of the directory tree.  I have 
wondered whether to have version 2 use "Library2" so you could have a 
course with both (toggling which one to use by the problem library 
version setting, which can go in course.conf).  I should say the 
database tables have new names, so mysql can have both the old data and 
the new data without conflict.

So, if you want to compare back and forth, you have to change the link 
under templates and change the version setting in a .conf file.

There are still issues with some of the tags themselves, but I am 
especially interested on feedback on the installation process, and the 
interface itself.

John