On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 02:19:45PM +1000, Gary Browne wrote: > It's great how everything in DSpace 1.5 is maintained within the source > code directory, makes support so much easier.
I must disagree. I think it's a nasty muddle and I hope to find some time to disentangle it. > Only thing is, there are > exceptions. I just had a complaint (well, a query) from my repository > manager that the sidebar news that he changed had reverted to the > previous version. This happened after I had done a rebuild and deploy. I've had similar mishaps here. That's why I now have a separate SCM branch for production configuration data, so I can get back what's supposed to be there should another update mess it up. > So I made some changes to the sidebar news from the GUI (JSP) and sure > enough, the changes are written to [dspace]/config/news-side.html, > rather than [dspace-source]/dspace/config/news-side.html. The > news-top.html seems to suffer the same fate ie: everytime I rebuild, the > news html pages in the install directory are overwritten with those from > the source directory (as they should be). As they should NOT be, I would say. An install script should NEVER override existing configuration data. IMO [dspace-source]/config should be a collection of templates for supplying missing files only. If the target file already exists then it should not be touched. > Would be great if this behaviour could be changed to reflect the general > ideology of maintaining changes within the source - unless I'm mistaken > about this ideology? I hope that you are but fear that you are not. > I guess currently DSpace has no way of knowing > where your source code is? Correct. And that's as it should be. In some cases here there is no source anywhere on the machine that actually runs DSpace. We'd avoid a lot of surprise and complexity if there were a cleaner separation between build-time, install-time, and run-time configuration. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite.
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