Re: [Phpslash-devel] back-end install wizard

[Joe S. <joe...@us...>]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:57:53PM -0500, Luis M wrote:
> 
> >I backported Evan Hughes' install wizard for back-end to phpslash.  It is
> >in cvs now.  If you do an anon checkout it may not be mirrored yet.
> 
> yoohooo!! and I thought my migration process was going to be bad. That 
> sounds great. After using an Install Wizard, I'm thinking about simply 
> dumping my tables and moving my template dir to the new instalation; then 
> test and retest until I get things stable enough -- while taking notes and 
> fixing bugs as I go. That way I will have a more solid upgrade path for my 
> production sites.
> 

No upgrade script for the tables yet.  But yeah, I've been doing more and
more from this base.

> >Luis - can you see if you can add your download option?  Currently if it
> >can't write the ini file it displays it for cut and paste.  Also see if
> >maybe we could graft your editor on for modifying the other options, or
> >expand the questions.  It currently only does the bare minimum to get
> >started.
> 
> Not a problem. However so far I get this when doing "cvs update"
> $> cvs update
> ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
> cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if 
> any)
> 
> So, I guess SourceForge is having problems, again. This might be the 
> begining of the end for such a nice project? Don't know for sure yet but 
> they are always having problems.
> 

This is what I used:

cvs -dj...@cv...:/cvsroot/phpslash co
phpslash-dev

> >Since I didn't tag the 0.8alpha release yet and I screwed up and put the
> >templates in twice, I'm going to replace the download binary with a new
> >one.  If you've got any bug fixes, get them in.  I'm going to try to get
> >some new story text plugin changes done too.
> 
> I guess that you could skip the tagging part and just take the snapshot 
> approach for "alpha" releases. And just note in the release somehow that 
> this came from CVS of date XXXX-XX-XX since the CVS server doesn't change 
> that often I guess that we can get away with that for now if we need to go 
> back to a specific point.
> 
> 

I've thought about that too.  Just make the alpha release a dated
snapshot.

Joe

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