Forum OpenACS Development: AOLserver version requirements?

Posted by Ivan Histand on 01/25/02 09:19 PM

I see a lot of references to using the AD supplied AOLserver build
(AOLserver/ad3.3??) I successfully installed 4.0 using the latest
AOLsever 3.4 release from aolserver.com, I did have to install a few
extra modules, don't remember off the top of my head which ones.

Question is, is the AD version an official requirement for ACS, or
have the applicable patches/equivalents been rolled into the 3.4
release from AOL? What problems should I expect to have if I use 3.4?

Thanks,
Ivan

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Posted by Jon Griffin on 01/25/02 09:22 PM

3.4.2 works perfectly (except for the damn -g flag not being honored, but ad-13 has that problem also).

I believe there are 2 patches in ad-13 that are not in 3.4.2 and since they didn't affect what I was doing I forgot what they were. (international stuff?).

So yes 3.4.2 works fine and I am installing locally to write some stuff about it and security to add/update Vinods doc (which I haven't seen).

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Posted by Ken Kennedy on 01/25/02 09:33 PM

Exxxcelllent. AOLserver 3.4.2 is in Debian unstable AND testing. That's exactly what I needed to know (and wanted to hear)...thanks, Jon!!

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Posted by Don Baccus on 01/25/02 10:21 PM

I think the international stuff, yes, but am not sure. It would be great if someone could investigate this. Maybe Mat Kovach would have time? I'd love to move us to a more modern version of AOLserver.

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Posted by Neophytos Demetriou on 01/26/02 02:12 PM

3.4.2 does not provide i18n support that is available in the aD patched version. If someone has the time to port the i18n related changes to 3.4.2 it would be great (my hands are full right now, sorry). It would be easier if we could isolate the i18n related changes in the patched version since ASFAICS other changes made it into 3.4.2.

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Posted by Jon Griffin on 01/26/02 05:24 PM

I will work on it. I think I fixed the logic bug in the groups not being set correctly. I will look at the Rob's patches and see what didn't make it in.

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Posted by Neophytos Demetriou on 01/26/02 07:24 PM

That's great news Jon! Thank you very much.

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Posted by Mat Kovach on 01/30/02 05:16 AM

Neophytos Demetriou comments regarding the difference appear to be correct (I still have a bit more checking to do). the *BSD exec bug still seems to be there (the patch is painless). It might be best to right now work with just AOLserver3.3ad13 as a base and once we have a solid installation path with that look into moving to a more stardard AOLserver version.

Since aD most likely won't be contributing patches towards AOLserver
anymore (just my guess, I've been know to be wrong) that might be our best move in the short and long run.

I think right now we have our work cut out for use to get a beta version and final release out and it might be a good time to just decieded on a version to use, support it and then let "feature creep" start after the release?

I'm willing to put AOLserver 3.4.X in the mix but will it really gain us any ground right now? I'd love to just stick with AOLserver3.3ad13 (plus the patches that have been added) and worry about creating some nice binary distribtributions and install procedures.

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Posted by Barry Books on 01/31/02 01:14 PM

I have a followup question. How hard would it be to port OpenACS to Apache Mod TCL? I think this has more potential to broaden the appeal of OpenACS than a windows AOL port.