I just thought I'd give you guys some information I got this morning from Karl Goldstein. This is a copy of an email he returned.
Hi David,
<blockquote>>>>> "David" == David Richards <mailto:geni100@yahoo.com> writes:
</blockquote>
David> Hello, I'm kind of a newbie in the ACS world. I've spent 5
David> or 6 months reading Philip's book, loading and configuring
David> the toolkit, and doing this and that with it. I've kind of
David> migrated over to the openACS partially for now--I'm just
David> small fries today, and so are my clients.
David> Over at the openACS, there's a lot of discussion about
David> adding an abstract presentation layer. Your solution seems
David> to be the favorite among all informed. However, we have
David> some questions regarding what will actually be implemented
David> in ACS 4.0. Since we need to convert those parts of the
David> toolkit that are Oracle specific, we are a little wary
David> about which ACS versions are converted, which add-on
David> modules are converted, etc.
Yea, this business with Oracle/postgres is agonizing. I admire you
guys for trying to deal with it.
So, as far as you know, will
David> your Dynamic Publishing System 1.0 be a package in ACS 4.0?
Yes, DPS will be two modules starting with ACS 3.3: templates and
form manager.
David> Or will 4.0 take another aproach to this abstraction layer?
David> Right now, the best we can do is just search the Arsdigita
David> pages for any clues as to where this part of the ACS is
David> headed.
David> Also, I've been doing a conversion of your 0.4 code because
David> I've got to decide on a working model to use really quickly
David> here. I know that on your installation page you warned us
David> of using the DPS with AOLserver 3.0--that it's buggy, etc.
David> Is this still the case? Any specific areas I could take a
David> look at?
I've written a patch for the ADP parser that fixes the specific
problems I was encountering. It's part of the AOLserver binary
release and also available from
http://karl.arsdigita.com/doc/publish/install.adp
David> Finally, after following your installation instructions, I
David> was left with 2 files in the /template directory of your
David> source. index.tcl and template.el. I haven't had time to
David> look at those yet. Do they belong somewhere?
template.el is a sort of abortive attempt to write some macros to
make it easier to write the spec files in emacs. index.tcl is
just a redirect to the doc directory...
David> Thanks,
David> David Richards
