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[drupal-devel] FYI: Quick test of Drupal 4.6.3 with MySQL 5.0.13
by Syscrusher 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

Good evening! This is just an FYI for anyone who is interested. A couple of days ago, the folks at MySQL announced version 5.0.13, the first "release candidate" (gamma test version) of the new MySQL 5 database. It happens that I'm building a new server in a non-production setting and had a strong need (for reasons not related to Drupal) to provide one of our developers with a test bed for MySQL 5. I also happened to have an existing, fairly minimalist (i.e., few add-on modules) Drupal 4.6.3 site that was up and running under MySQL 4.1.x. So while giving the requesting developer what he needed, I grabbed the opportunity for a bit of Drupal testing of my own. I upgraded MySQL from 4.1.x to 5.0.13, recompiled PHP 5.x against the new MySQL libs (using the ./config.nice script from the previous build), and ran Drupal. I can't claim to have exhaustively tested it, by any means, but I thought it worth mentioning that at least superficially, all appears to be in order. I have to point out that I am *not* using multilingual character sets, and that is one area where MySQL 5.0 seems to differ from 4.1, so that bears further testing. But, it appears that any problems with MySQL 5.0 are likely to be small fixes rather than system-crushing roadblocks. I moved around the admin and user menus, trying out all functions I could, and so far no problems. Scott -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Courtney Drupal user name: "syscrusher" http://drupal.org/user/9184 scott at 4th dot com Drupal projects: http://drupal.org/project/user/9184 Sandbox: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/syscrusher

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[drupal-devel] Less
by Dries Buytaert 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

Interesting read: http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/ less_as_a_competitive_advantage_my_10_minutes_at_web_20.php -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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[drupal-devel] Form API
by Dries Buytaert 08 Oct '05

08 Oct '05

The infamous form API patch has been committed. Great work guys! However, we aren't there yet: + The contact.module was broken; a new patch for contact.module is needed. + Module upgrade instruction are needed. + The most important modules need to be updated ASAP. + The most important patches need to be updated ASAP. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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[drupal-devel] Oracle acquires InnoBase, makers of InnoDB engine for MySQL
by Khalid B 08 Oct '05

08 Oct '05

This is quite a surprise. MySQL transactions, and referential integrity all relied on InnoDB. Now there are doubts if that will continue. It it true that the InnoDB code is GPL, but the brains behind it will now belong to Oracle. Unless someone (MySQL?) is able to rally a community around GPL InnoDB, there may be serious implications for the future. http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/07/2021211&tid=221

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[drupal-devel] using custom blocks in i18n
by Joe Murray 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

For others using the i18n module, in order to get some French/English bilingual static content into blocks, Mike Gifford and I used the following approach: <?php if ( i18n_get_lang()=='fr' ) then { ?> // french text <?php } else { ?> // english text <?php } ?> Joe Murray, PhD President, JMA Consulting 57 Grandview Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4K 1J1 416.466.1281, 416.466.1277 (f) joe.murray(a)jmaconsulting.biz

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[drupal-devel] Drupal and GPL3
by Steve Dondley 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Anyone have thoughts on a possible modification to GPL3 that would require web sites to release source code? See http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5884172.html -- Dondley Communications http://www.dondleycommunications.com Communicate or Die: American Labor Unions and the Internet http://www.communicateordie.com

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[drupal-devel] Release critical bugs for October 06, 2005
by drupal-devel＠drupal.org 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

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[drupal-devel] Premissions cont.
by Karoly Negyesi 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Malthus suggests using GD for rotating the texts. Great idea, that one. Performance is not to be taken care of here -- how often do you visit admin/modules , anyways? Also, it's entirely feasible to cache the -45 degree rotated role name images in files.

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[drupal-devel] Please test HEAD , especially forms
by Karoly Negyesi 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Hi! We knew that form API will introduce bugs but we need the many eyeballs that make all bugs are shallow. Bug fixing is easy, for example, for non-freetagging vocabularies a tree => TRUE was missing and that's it. So keep those bug reports coming and rest assured: Drupal is not beyond repair, the bugs are minor. Regards Karoly Negyesi

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Re: [drupal-devel] reviews needed
by Kobus Myburgh 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

As promised: Even though this was very informal, and not audited, and of course, putting the students on the spot (which didn't give them time to think about this), I did the "usability testing". I wrote down on the white board in front of the computer room (50 students seating and some standing around): (Don't comment on the validity of the URLs) www.nwu.ac.za/admin/node/34/spider/23 www.nwu.ac.za/library 1. URL 2. Custom URL 3. Path 4. Custom Path 5. Custom URL Path 6. URL Path 7. Short name 8. Alias Then I asked: "If you are presented with the above two web addresses, it would obviously be easier to remember the second one than the first one. Now imagine I have set the two to go to the exact same address. If the first one is called URL, what will you call the second one?" I had 34 responses, as follows: 3 - URL 8 - Custom URL 0 - Path 0 - Custom Path 7 - Custom URL Path 0 - URL Path 13 - Short name 3 - Alias Then I decided this is not very useful, so I tried another approach: "If I present you with the following words to make up a name for this second web address, which words would you use?" 1. Path 2. Alias 3. Short 4. Name 5. URL 6. Custom (I then proceeded to cycle through these words, and counted how many would use the specific word in the name. I didn't restrict the number of votes an individual can make, because, obviously, they can have more than one word in the name.) The votes were as follows: Path - 22 votes Alias - 6 votes Short - 30 votes Name - 20 votes URL - 9 votes Custom - 5 votes If my "quick and dirty usability testing" means anything, the obvious choice for the name would be one that contains the words short, name and path, such as: Short path Short name Regards, Kobus >>> ITBJDM(a)puknet.puk.ac.za 10/5/2005 4:21:31 PM >>> > Perhaps someone can do some actual usability testing with some of these names, > so that we're not just arguing back and forth over nothing? Leave this to me. I will provide feedback in roughly 15 minutes. I have access to a full computer lab of students at this very moment. Kobus

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