Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: A few general questions

2: Re: A few general questions (response to 1)

Posted by Ryan Gallimore on 06/07/11 03:20 PM

Welcome to OpenACS!

1. You can "watch" a Tcl library or XQL file from the APM: http://SYSTEM/acs-admin/apm. Click "reload" next to your package and then "watch" to reload the listed files automatically with each request.

2. Take a look at the /tcl/*-init.tcl files in many packages. These always run on startup after all library files have been loaded for the package.

3. "ad" stands for "ArsDigita" - the commercial company that started "ACS" or ArsDigita Community System. When aD went under they open-sourced the project and it was renamed "Open Architecture Community System" or OpenACS.

4. Not that I know of...

See the Documentation section, and the Tutorial for more information. Good luck!

3: Re: A few general questions (response to 2)

Posted by Andrew Piskorski on 06/08/11 12:46 AM

When aD went under they open-sourced the project and it was renamed "Open Architecture Community System" or OpenACS.

Well no. Fortunately the ACS was always open source from very early on; at least by 1998, possibly as early as 1995. That's how OpenACS was able to be created; first as a fork of ACS to use PostgreSQL, and then with support for both databases starting with version 4.x. The OpenACS project had been active for a good while (years?) before aD went out of business.