On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 10:08 -0500, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> Kevin Lo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 16:29 -0500, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> > > Fred Crowson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 12/16/09, Fred Crowson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > On 12/16/09, Predrag Punosevac <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > >> Dear All,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Is anybody using Learning Management System ATutor? The only LMS I
> > > > >> noticed in ports is Moodle which is terribly outdate. I looked into
> > > > >> installation of ATutor and it seems to me that it is just of bunch of
> > > > >> xhtml, java-script, and php files which have to up unloaded in the
> > > > >> right
> > > > >> directory and correctly linked with MySQL. Obviously ATutor also
> > > > >> requires PHP module for Apache.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Does anybody see the value of porting ATutor?
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Best,
> > > > >> Predrag
> > > > >>
> > > > >> P.S. Do people have any experience with Drupal as LMS? Does it have a
> > > > >> grade-book?
> > > > >
> > > > > What's wrong with Moodle? I know that the packaged version is behind
> > > > > the
> > > > > current release but you can upgrade quite easily.
> > > > >
> > > > > And it runs nicely in the httpd chroot.
> > > > >
> > > > > Fred
> > > >
> > > > Sorry should have said have you asked on ports@ about bring moodle up
> > > > to the latest version?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > Fred
> > > > PS I would added to my own to-do list but I'm already behind on
> > > > getting netbeans uptodate....
> > >
> > > No, I have not asked on ports about updating. I contacted privately the
> > > port maintainer who promised that he will update port pending on his
> > > time. Fortunately, he happens to work on more interesting things than
> > > updating Moodle. Since he is busy and I need the port I fell it is up
> > > to me to send the diff which people will test.
> >
> > Okay, I have some free time. I just sent an updated diff for moodle
> > on po...@. Please test it, thanks!
> >
> Kev,
Hi Predrag,
> Thank you so much. I will test in the next day or so. On another note I
> have played for the past 10-12 hours with ATutor. The good news is that
> actually your Moodle port can be used as template for ATutor. If you
> start with your Makefile for Moodle it would be enough just to replace
> port name with ATutor-1.6.3, edit the web-site and remove PostgreSQL
> flavour since ATutor works only with MySQL. Here is the quick and
> dirty Makefile I hope I will have some time this weekend to clean the
> port and actually to send ATutor to ports. Obviously there would be no
> flavors in the final version and php-mysql module has to be add as run
> dependencies. The quick and dirty ATutor makefile is shown below. The
> real "difficulty" with ATutor is to fire up MySQL, PHP module in proper
> order and create /var/www/tmp directory so that we can still use Apache
> in the chroot.
Thanks for the info, but I'm not interested in ATutor.
Maybe you can make that port and post it on po...@.
> Best,
> Predrag
Kevin
