Forum OpenACS Development: Re: API for parsing html-forms

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6: Re: API for parsing html-forms (response to 1)
Posted by Nima Mazloumi on 11/17/03 10:03 AM
I copied that part from the cvs head-doc:

https://openacs.org/doc/openacs-HEAD/individual-programs.html

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7: Re: API for parsing html-forms (response to 6)
Posted by Joel Aufrecht on 11/17/03 12:07 PM
I don't think we should switch the testing platform from AOLserver 3.3oacs1 to AOLserver 4 while in Beta on OpenACS 5.0.  I think we should ship 5.0 and then consider AOLserver 4.0 support as a new feature in 5.1.  By "support" I mean have some core developers AND automated test servers and installers using AOLserver 4 - we did do some testing against 4.0 and it uncovered a few subtle things, like changes in config.tcl, that we need to handle carefully.
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8: Re: API for parsing html-forms (response to 7)
Posted by Jeff Davis on 11/17/03 01:18 PM
I put in a ticket for the out of date version stuff in software.xml.

As for 4.0, I have been using 4.0 since march for pretty much all the testing I have done and have not run into any problems (and I think Don, Bart, and Roberto have been running it too). It seems pretty bulletproof (although I agree its probably a 5.1 or 5.0.1 change).

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11: Re: API for parsing html-forms (response to 7)
Posted by Andrew Piskorski on 11/18/03 10:32 PM
Joel, from a software stability assurance point of view your thoughts on sticking with AOLserver 3.3+patches for OpenACS 5.0 make sense, but in the long run we're all going to better off the faster we get everyone onto AOLserver 4.0. And a lot of OpenACS 5.0 users are, overall, going to find it easier to use AOLserver 4.0 than the older version, not harder.

So if people are willing to update the necessary docs and config files for in time, I'd OpenACS 5.0 should recommend and support both versions of AOLserver, with the note that in the future AOLserver 4.x will become the standard.