Forum OpenACS Development: nsrewrite: should it be in SourceForge?

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1: nsrewrite: should it be in SourceForge?
Posted by Tom Jackson on 12/11/02 02:49 AM

I just finished installing OpenACS or Oracle (pg tomorrow), from scratch, following the install documents. I noticed that one module that is in the suggested config file (nsrewrite) was not at SourceForge. I found it in file storage in a tgz file with some other modules.

Hey, this is a great module, why hide it? Should it go on SourceForge? I edited the makefile so it conforms to the other module makefiles.

If not, we need a better advertised location for this module. What we may need anyway is a place to put all the jumble of files the install doc asks the user to download. For Oracle, there must be 5 or more of these scattered around.

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2: Re: nsrewrite: should it be in SourceForge? (response to 1)
Posted by Jamie Rasmussen on 12/11/02 03:17 PM
It would be great if it was added to SourceForge, particularly since you've taken the time to update the makefile.  If you can write a little Readme with usage information that would also be excellent.
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3: Re: nsrewrite: should it be in SourceForge? (response to 1)
Posted by russ m on 12/16/02 12:13 AM
Just out of curiosity, what is this useful for? The one function this module exports (ns_rewriteurl) isn't used anywhere in OACS, and as far as I can see it's only use in ACS > 3 would be to go behind the back of the request processor.

Perhaps it should be removed from the default config file? Or am I missing something here?

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4: Re: nsrewrite: should it be in SourceForge? (response to 1)
Posted by Tom Jackson on 12/16/02 03:33 AM

I think it provides a tcl wrapper around a useful C API command. I thought it was used, but maybe not. I guess it doesn't matter then to OpenACS.

I'll put in SourceForge next week in case someone else wants to use it.