Forum OpenACS Q&A: update to dotLRN data model files

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Posted by Ben Adida on
Hi all,

It looks like we introduced a last minute dependency bug in the
loading of the dotLRN data model. I've just fixed this and
committed the changes. I suspect that the bug might also be
causing your applet failure problem, Michael. Try updating CVS
and reloading the system now. I've just tested a from-scratch
install. No error messages and all applets seem to be working.

As for restarting dotLRN: technically, once you have OpenACS
installed, you can install the dotLRN packages, mount dotLRN
under /dotlrn, and then restart only once. We'll try to come up with
a nice/robust method for doing all of the initialization without
restarting, but what we're effectively doing here is patching a
missing feature in OpenACS: some kind of hook for custom
actions to be performed once a package is added. Since we
don't have this hook, it's extremely difficult to *cleanly* initialize
the dotLRN environment... thus the restart.