From: mose <mo...@mo...> - 2003-12-30 04:56:06
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le Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 01:12:31PM -0500 par Dennis Heltzel : > > What are these 2 apps?? > > 1) Document management application - this only partially works right now, > but would be of general interest once complete. > > 2) Biological species database - written specifically for the American > Killifish Association to track which members are maintaining the different > populations of killifish in their aquariums. The app wouldn't be of > general use, but the code might be a good starting point for others to > build custom database-driven apps for other uses. I was planning to make a > more generic database app to use for this, but this app has the benefit of > being substantially completed. > > > The packaging system could be used to extract features out of tiki and > also to distribute patches (with appropriate warnings, since it doesn't do > any sanity checking at this time, and removing a patch package would be a > good way to break tiki in new and strange ways). > > Adding these to CVS would mean adding a new directory (called "packages") > off tiki_root and putting one or both zip files into that dir. These are > the current sizes of the apps: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 34352 Dec 15 16:16 bio.zip > -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 241675 Dec 15 16:17 dms.zip > > I would be happy to put them in CVS, but maybe they don't belong there. I > wonder if they should be in uploaded as separate files in SF in the tiki > addon's section. In fact, the addon's might be repackaged as tiki packages > as well. - we can use a new module in CVS. I created a module called TikiPackages, as follows in CVSROOT/modules # TikiPackages for extending tiki tikipackages tikipackages You could now (I know you know, dennis, I just write here for general knowledge :) cd $TIKI_HOME mkdir tikipackages && cd tikipackages mv ../bio.zip ../dms.zip . vi README cvs import -m'initial import' tikipackages TIKIWIKI REL-1 cd .. && rm -rf tikipackages cvs co tikipackages .. or something like that. a README file with a list of content with description would be cool. I don't exactly know what we can do with that packaging system yet, but it sounds funny and promising. Any other contribution of that type is welcome :) cheers, mose |