From: Lester C. <le...@ls...> - 2005-06-12 08:22:12
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xing wrote: >> I need a forum as a matter of urgency, and at present I am seriously >> considering dropping back to tikiwiki because of time pressures. >> Currently there is a considerable lack of facilities that were >> working only a few months ago, and currently I am not convinced that >> clyde will be nailed down enough to spend time 're-fixing' those >> packages that I had already got working !!! > > i am not a database person and i don't know what breaks the firebird > compatability. it might be useful if you could post a page on tp.o > entailing all changes you have to make on a regular basis to get stuff > working for you. it might help us code this thing in a firebird > accepted way. The database stuff is not too difficult at all. Usual niggles are missing back quotes, tweaks to SQL to tidy JOIN structure, and standardising on things like - LIKE - in a generic way. Most of the generic stuff is now done in the TikiDB library and as long as THAT is used, rather than had coding database specific SQL we will be OK. My main grumble at the moment is nothing to do with Firebird! I have a nice working package with contacts, calendar, appointments and ticketing, which works very fast. But NONE of it is compatible with the current clyde core and the whole lot needs to be re-written! I am STILL not convinced that Liberty is stable enough to start doing that, and more important - if it is even going to be compatible with what *I* need to achieve. So do I just move back to pre-Liberty setup and carry on from there - because I *DO* have a working system. Certainly I can see a hell of a lot of work if I want all that functionality in the current clyde build :( The problem is a simple fundamental one ;) I just see the content as content. The content of a blog, wiki, forum message, article, comment, description for a picture, etc are all the same thing and can be edited with the same editor. We then just call up a structure that puts those elements together as required - AND USES ANY ELEMENT - So Liberty cuts right across every package and should provide a generic set of tools, which I am still not seeing - yet ;) WHAT *IS* the difference between the tree of comments added to a wiki page and a forum thread ? I don't want to plow more months of work in if I can't achieve a working end point quickly, and at present the 'API' for even working with Liberty does not seem to exist? phpBB is a sidetrack that is detracting from getting a 'finished product'. EITHER we are building a framework round Liberty, OR we are building a framework for independent packages. Has anybody made a decision yet? Because it seems to be fundamental to me! -- Lester Caine ----------------------------- L.S.Caine Electronic Services |