i sent the author an email, here's what he said:
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Dwayne Hinton wrote:
<blockquote> 1. like what changes did you make
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I made extensive changes throughout the classifieds module. In fact,
I'd argue that the old module would be barely recognizable.
As for what to port over to OpenACS, I think my approach would be to
use the latest version of OpenACS, and then go through it page by page, copying over the changes that I made.
You should throw away all the templating that I did, because it's not
very good anyway. There's also a number of little things I'd do differently --
for instance, the bidding mechanism should be broken up and placed into the API.
In short, if I were to do the code over again, it would be quite
different (as usual), so I think you should use my code as a basis for a rewrite.
On the other hand, if that's too much for you, the only changes I made
to the original code that would affect you is that there are some outer joins that show the number of bids on every item.
<blockquote> 2. what version of acs did you base the module on
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It's based on either ACS 2.0 or 2.1 (I can't remember exactly), and the documentation is a bit unclear. Either way, it's an *old* version of the ACS.
<blockquote> i what to thank you for your work, this module would fit
quite nicely into my site's scheme
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I really hope it works out for you! Please feel free to contact me
with any questions you might have!
Paul Doerwald, author of auction module (www.doerwald.net)
