Forum OpenACS Development: Re: xowiki crashes

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5: Re: xowiki crashes (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 10/12/06 01:49 PM
Gustaf, the version of ns_cache you recommend is UNRELEASED. We can't be distributing OpenACS requiring folks to get the basic prerequisites from CVS.

Until someone actually releases a new version of ns_cache that actually supports this feature, it makes sense to write code that will work without it.

Xowiki cannot be included in .LRN, for example, until we have an "official" ns_cache that supports the pattern agrument. Insiting on this kind of thing is why it is so hard to get OpenACS working. For you, getting ns_cache with a one-line change from CVS is no problem, me neither, but expectig a new user to hunt and find every little piece in a different place is not good.

I use the debian packages for AOLserver and the AOLserver modules and that version of ns_cache does not support the pattern argument either.

I asked before on the AOLserver list but noone seems interested in making the latest ns_cache available. If someone could do that it would be great.

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6: Re: xowiki crashes (response to 5)
Posted by Stan Kaufman on 10/12/06 05:35 PM
Actually, the install docs do say to use CVS to get aolserver as well as nscache and other modules. For some reason, during this install I just grabbed tarballs from sourceforge; guess I thought that the latest ones would work -- but that obviously isn't the case for nscache. Anyway, with the cvs version, all is sweetness and light again.
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7: Re: xowiki crashes (response to 5)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 10/13/06 09:52 AM
Dave,

Vlad Seryakov was the last one working on ns_cache https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=51200 and made it available from the following site ftp://ftp.crystalballinc.com/pub/vlad/nscache.tar.gz

We can't be distributing OpenACS requiring folks to get the
basic prerequisites from CVS.

As Stan points out, we do this already. Our official installation notes say "get ns_cache from cvs". The automated installation script from Malte gets if from cvs as well.

So, if only debian is using the old version, would it not be best to point the debian maintainer to the oacs-installation guide and ask him/her to upgrade the debian package accordingly?

-gustaf
PS: there is active work improving ns_cache in the naviserver project.