Forum OpenACS Q&A: Catching Up

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Posted by Simon at TCB on
Hello again folks, hope you're all keeping well.

I haven't been to the site for a while (I haven't been near IT for a while either) and it looks like theres quite a lot going on.

I noticed the test server for dotLRN. Is this using our automated testing package in there somewhere? Is so I'd love to know how useful it is, and also whether there's been any additional work on it.

I do also have a requirement. Does OpenACS have any kind of SOAP/Web Services as yet?

I'm also trying to catch up on the status of Postgres. In particular whether there is support for databases across multiple disks and also what the status of the (if I remember correctly) windows port (yuk ;o)

Any info most welcome.

Nice to 'see' you all again.

TCB

Simon

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2: Re: Catching Up (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on
Yes, the test server is using the automated test package.  There hasn't been any (or much, at least) work on it but we will be integrated tclwebtest for 5.1, so we can do page-level as well as API-level testing.  While there's not been much done to the testing package, people *have* written a bunch more tests using it.

So you guys can take pride in that you've made a lasting contribution to the OpenACS testing effort, even if none of us ever got around to buying you a pint as a "thanks"!

SOAP/web services is, as always, being nibbled at by folks.  I don't personally know the status ...

PG doesn't have tablespaces, yet.  There's always been "ln -s" level support for putting different tables on different disks but I imagine you (like me) feel that this is an inadequate implementation :)  I don't think PG 7.4 will have it but I'm fairly certain 7.5 will.

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3: Re: Catching Up (response to 1)
Posted by Jade Rubick on
The SOAP question is in the FAQ: https://openacs.org/faq
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4: Re: Catching Up (response to 1)
Posted by Jamie Rasmussen on
PostgreSQL windows port is being worked on, but isn't in 7.4.
Current status at http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/win32.html

There's now a Win32-development specific mailing list:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers-win32/