[WWdevel] Re: comment on add courses

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

On Jan 13, 2006, at 13:41, Arnold Pizer wrote:

> Hi Sam,
>
> I tried to used course_admin to add a course and got the error:
>
>
> An error occured while creating the course mth162:
> Failed to create course directory /ww/htdocs/tmp/mth162: File exists
>
> I think it would be reasonable in adding a course to just give a  
> warning message if the tmp directory can not be created.  In the  
> above case it's clear what's wrong and how to fix things but in  
> other cases (e.g. with sticky bits) it might not be. The downside  
> is that a course may be created without the tmp directory set up  
> correctly, but in the other case people may not be able to create a  
> course at all.  Also the message should make it clear whether or  
> not a course has been created.

Hi,

I'll change addCourse and deleteCourse to warn about directory  
creation/deletion errors as with renameCourse. Thanks for testing this.
-sam