#333: Supporting local output formats
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Reporter: skaplun | Owner: jcaffaro
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: minor | Milestone: v1.0
Component: BibFormat | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by simko):
Replying to [comment:4 tbrooks]:
> 1) The above naming/reinstalling convention causes problems (which for
the most part can be solved by INSPIRE renaming things correctly)
Actually the goal of the above conventions is precisely to ease the
re-installation troubles. Invenio installations sometimes
reuse-and-change default demo templates/formats, which is not ideal
from the upgrade point of view, as we discussed in another ticket
(ticket:273#comment:3). We typically advise people to "clone" demo
files, using their local template skin names. Having a common
convention across all modules how to publish `local` changes of this
kind should make it easier to copy/clone/customise demo configuration
files even more.
> 2) [...] CFG_FORMAT_REPO location and when "saving" in the web interface
it saved bft and bfo files in the repo as well as in the installed code
For multi-person installations, I'm afraid a simple save to yet
another place would not work very well, because several people may be
having access to the BibFormat Admin interface and may be performing
changes; so copying files to the same non-installation place may
possibly overwrite each other's work or otherwise create a confusion.
To solve this, the BibFormat Admin interface would have to behave more
like an SCM, say use `git push` instead of `cp`. I'm kind of sceptical
it would be worth the effort to develop this.
For single-person installations, this would not be a problem. But
then a single person can probably easily make a diff between the
installation place and his/her source place in order to commit his/her
changes made via UI. So dunno if this would be much of an
improvement?
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