September 2007 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Core modules group
by Cog Rusty 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

In a Drupal 5 installation I noticed that the "optional core modules" group in /admin/build/modules included the xstatistics and comment_notify modules. The latter even included a link to its sponsor in its description. Apparently they both contain "package = Core - optional" in their info file. Is this a normal practice? I was already a bit confused by where some modules were placing themselves in the navigation menu, and this came up like a violation of a last asylum.

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selenium test
by Brenda Wallace 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

Anyone already using selenium for automated testing of D6/head ? We've been doing some testing against postgres, and now have a bunch of selenium tests we can contribute. What now?

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Question on base_path() in hook_init and caching
by David Metzler 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

I've been recently struggling with getting my cas module to support caching (not agressive caching). I started by getting error messages when I called arg() in my hook_init and am now having problems with base_path() not being defined. Can anyone suggest a strategy for eliminating these errors? Is there a bootstrap function I should be calling in my hook_init? If not should I be filing a core bug related to this, or should I not be able to use arg and base_path in a hook_init function? Thanks for any help Dave

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Conference in India
by CK Raju, Thrissur 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

Friends, A two day international conference with Free Software as a principal theme is announced on 14,15 December 2007 in Kerala, India. Asia-Pacific contributors can avail travel grants upto $2000 from UNDP-APDIP - details on this and more at http://mesengg.ac.in/icist2007.htm Technical Papers are solicited. RMS would be addressing the conference (pre-recorded) and would take questions from participants on a real-time basis. Regards, CK Raju, Convenor ICIST2007

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Just do it
by Karoly Negyesi 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

Feel free to pretend lawyers on a development list as long as you want. Feel free to push more features into a long frozen core. Whatever. I am not going to follow up on any issue until Drupal 6 beta is out. Karoly Negyesi

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Modules that integrate non-GPL PHP apps violate the GPL.
by Jeff Eaton 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

For quite some time, it has been commonly understood in the Drupal community that non-GPL software (like a third-party PHP message board system) can be integrated into Drupal legally by using an intermediary 'bridge' module. After some in-depth emails with the Free Software foundation's license gurus, it's become clear that this is NOT the case. Before going any further, I want to make clear that I'm not expressing approval or disapproval of this: I'm just relaying the conclusions that were reached after several days of discussion and questioning with the FSF. Why do these modules violate the GPL? 1) Under the FSF's accepted interpretation of the GPL, if a module is integrating Drupal and another PHP script, by calling one's APIs when triggered by the other for example, its purpose is to make a single unit of software out of those parts. 2) If multiple programs are operating together and functioning as one unit, all the pieces must be GPL'd. There are a lot of angles to approach the question from, but that's what it boils down to. From a developer's perspective, if debug_backtrace() can ever include functions from both Drupal and an external program, you've turned them into a single program. There are some potential solutions, though none of them are ideal. 1) Add a notice to Drupal's license that clarifies that writing such modules IS explicitly allowed. This is problematic, however, because that would make Drupal non-GPL'd itself, a GPL variant, and we would require explicit relicensing permission by the authors of any GPL code we wish to include. 2) Remove modules that integrate with third-party non-GPL code from the CVS repository, even if they do not *include* the aforementioned non-GPL code. 3) Continue on as we are, and don't try to police these issues as there are NOT likely to be any real complaints. (No one that I know of is trying to SELL modules that integrate with non-GPL resources, for example.) This is an important question for us, and other GPL'd projects, to work through. Many GPL CMS's rely on integration components for critical functionality (message boards and mass mailing are two common examples). I can provide some detailed snippets from the correspondence to those who want them, but I'm not sure it would be useful for me to spend any more time corresponding. I exhausted my list of questions, and I'm just summarizing what I found out. --Jeff

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Actions usability fix
by Karoly Negyesi 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

Hi, As http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=80837 now in, we all owe Angie Byron (webchick) a beer (or maybe a pony -- this was not a mere beer-sized work) -- the patch may be the work of others besides her but it was her relentless work that made this possible. Thank you very much. NK

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Re: [development] jQuery 1.2 is released
by Matt Farina 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

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delay in publishing release on the project page
by Tomas J. Fulopp 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

Hi, I am rather new in the CVS, so here are two questions that will be rather basic for most of you. However, I could not find answers in the documentation. 1) I have submitted a new official release (brilliant_gallery 5.x-2.1) of my module and it appears here http://drupal.org/node/171445/release However on the project page http://drupal.org/project/brilliant_gallery it does not appear even after an hour. Is this normal? 2) While I have - presumably successfully - published the official release (mentioned above), I am not sure how to bump up the development snapshot version. It is still at 5.x-1.x-dev and I would like to increase it to 5.x-2.x-dev. I tried to create tag DRUPAL-5--2-dev and then created a release, but that (erroneously) created an official release. Cheers, Tomas

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CK-ERP (Open Source ERP / CRM / MRP) v.0.24.1 released [with Drupal 5.2 connector]
by C K Wu 11 Sep '07

11 Sep '07

Hi, folks, I have posted a new release, v.0.24.1, of CK-ERP, at SourceForge.Net, http://sourceforge.net/projects/ck-erp . New features include, a connector for LegalCase and updated connectors for ClearHealth, OpenEMR and osCommerce, facilities to convert sales order to purchase order and/or material/service requisition so as to procure the required material/service after a sale is concluded, addition of a sample law office chart of accounts and a sample medical practice chart of accounts, addition of Australian GST tax rate and updating of Canadian GST tax rate, addition of narrow/wide display option for the various case handling screens, addition of customer, vendor, employee contact lists, and, addition of German translation for the Quotation module. Special thank is due to David Epperson of Dallas for permission to make use of the "Law Firm Chart of Accounts" (located at http://www/txethics.org/TCLEPCOURSE2005/omlp/sec11.1.pdf) while generating the sample law office chart of accounts. The effort by Stefan Kemper of Switzerland in producing the new German translations is also gratefully acknowledged. [Please note that the sample medical practice chart of accounts is designed for countries/regions where medical doctors are allowed to dispense prescription drugs within their medical practices. If the relevant medical practice is operating within a jurisdiction where doctors are prohibited from dispensing drugs, then it may be a prudent measure to delete all the drug sale, COGS – drugs, inventory – drugs and related accounts to avoid a presumption that in-practice drug sale had been planned.] CK-ERP is an open source accounting/MRP/ERP/CRM system that runs on top of multiple middlewares. It comprises 22 modules - Administration, i18n, Contact Management, Customer Relationship, Customer Self Service, Vendor Relationship, Ledger, Bank Reconciliation, MRP, Warehouse, Inventory, Service, AP, AR, PO, SO, Quotation, POS for Cashier, POS for Manager, HR, Staff Self Service and Payroll. It provides accounting and back office functionalities to SMEs and utilizes the underlying middleware to administer accounts/groups. Please report error and suggestion to the discussion group / mailing list, CK-ERP-en(at)googlegroups.com or CK-ERP-zh_CN(at)googlegroups.com . General history and expected development is available at the discussion group's Archive. Supported MiddleWares: LegalCase, MirrorMed, ClearHealth, OpenEMR, eGroupWare, Horde-GroupWare; Zencart, CRELoaded, osCMax, osCommerce; Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, e107, XOOPS, Xaraya; Moodle, Atutor; vTiger, XRMS; WordPress, b2evolution; TikiWiki; phpBB. Information/Demo Websites: http://ck-erp.org http://ck-erp.net http://ck-erp.com Download is available from, http://sourceforge.net/projects/ck-erp http://gforge.oss.org.cn/projects/ck-erp http://gf.cs.hit.edu.cn/projects/ck-erp http://www.cnforge.org/modules/xfmod/project/?ck-erp http://gro.clinux.org/projects/ck-ledger Cheers, Wu Chiu Kay, aka CK Wu, aka CK (CK is the preferred alias) Hong Kong

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