[Slashcode-development] Oracle Port Progress, April 17: Greetings, Professor Falken

[Stephen C. <the...@wa...>]

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Wow.  What a difference a day makes.  Stuff literally fell together tonight, and
as a result the port is now becoming quite functional.

Perhaps most importantly, you can login now :)  This is what ground me to a halt
yesterday, actually -- the problem stemmed from the fetchrow_hashref casing bug
I pointed out in yesterday's update.  After overriding all the methods using
fetchrow_hashref (so they would return the expected lower case) and fixing up
some minor inheritance bugs, the system practically sprang to life.  Stuff that
was mysteriously failing (like login) that I had wasted hours tracing out
suddenly worked.  Anyway, after a bunch of method overriding, moderation, polls,
story editing, and user editing all appear to be working properly.  Comments are
still broken but only because I wasted time on some esoteric stuff and now I'm
stopping for the day.  All in all it's starting to look very good.

Toward the end of the week I'll probably set up a copy of OraSlash on our
production server and let people crash it.  I'll announce it here because I for
one don't have a clue how to tell if everything really works right :)  People
with more expertise about the nooks and crannies are needed.  As for the code,
it barely qualifies as alpha quality at this point (still tons of cleanup to
do), but I might throw together a patch or a tarball for the sadomasochists in
the audience who just want to see what's cooking.

Stay tuned, much more to come....

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Stephen Clouse <the...@wa...>
warpcore.org Founder, Chief Megalomaniac, and Evil Overlord

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