Re: [SourceJammer-users] nice

[Robert M. <rob...@ya...>]

Hi, Michael.

Thanks for the feedback. See comments below.

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>   > If you've been using SJ for a project
>   > in "the real world", even a student project,
> we'd love
>   > to hear about it. We want to put up a page on
> the site
>   > about people and organizations who are really
> using
>   > SJ.
> 
> I've been using it to manage the source for a PHP
> web app I'm writing
> called "Exosaga".  It's a very slow moving pet
> project that may not
> go live for some time now.
> 
> I also have two other PHP sites I'll be developing
> for two separate
> clients (I'm an indy web dev guy).  I intend to use
> SourceJammer to
> manage the source files (code and images) for both
> of these projects.

Cool. Thanks a lot for letting me know. 

> I made a backup of my Tomcat and SJ 1.0 installs and
> tried to use the
> sourcejammer-server-1.1.beta.2-conv.tar.gz package
> to convert to 1.1.
> This didn't seem to work so well.  I was receiving
> strange errors
> involving unfound conf files with paths like
> "c:\blah\blah" -- even
> though I was running the server on Linux -- when I
> tried to log in
> with the 1.1 SJ client.
> 
> So I trashed the upgraded installs and instead did a
> fresh Tomcat
> 3.2.4 and SJ 1.1 install.  This time it worked fine,
> but I still
> needed my old archives.  I copied the relevant
> archive files and
> directories over from my backup into the fresh
> install and ran the
> convert script that came with the upgrade package. 
> I've been humming
> along nicely since.

It definitely sounds like I need to do some more work
on the Linux release packages. I will try to repair
all these problems before I do the 1.1 final release.
Glad you were able to get up and running eventually,
though.

> 
> My biggest complaint is about the errors in the
> shell scripts for the
> Linux packages. These have already been covered in
> detail earlier on
> this list (/bin vs. /lib and the missing mail.jar
> and activation.jar
> paths). They are a relatively minor annoyance but if
> they weren't
> there SJ would be a LOT simpler to set up.

I will fixe all these.

> 
> While I'm giving input I should also mention that it
> would be nice if
> you could see all version comments at the same time
> when you view a
> file's details.  So, instead of just displaying a
> list of versions
> with the version number, date, and user you would
> also have a field
> showing the associated comment.  This way you could
> see all of the
> comments at once instead of having to select an
> entry and click "View
> Comment" for each version.

That's a good suggestion. I'm not 100% sure whether or
not I'll implement that one, though. Perhaps I could
make in a config option for the "details" dialog. What
I'm worried about is downloading unnecessary
information for people with slow connections. 

One other change I'm thinking about making to the GUI
(for 1.2) is changing the date that's displayed in the
file list from the create date to the last-modified
date. I think that would probably be a much more
useful piece of information to see.

Thanks for your feedback and thanks for using
SourceJammer.

--Rob


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