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

[CertIndex.com W. <web...@ce...>]

Hey,

just wanted to commend you on the good work, progress, and persistence. I know there's a good number
of people out there who want to use the Oracle port but don't have the
[time|balls|expertise-to-beat-it-into-submission|etc]

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From: "Stephen Clouse" <the...@wa...>
To: "Slashcode Development List" <sla...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, 17 April, 2001 22:54
Subject: [Slashcode-development] Oracle Port Progress, April 17: Greetings, Professor Falken


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