Markus (and Yaron and anyone else who might be able to help): Today I upgraded my wiki from MediaWiki 1.12 to 1.14. After a few false starts (because one of the extensions had some case changes in its name), the upgrade and schema update is now complete.
But then I tried to update SMW to the code now in Subversion (SMW 1.5b). This code "broke" my Historical Date data type. Now before you ask why I don't simply make "Historical Date" an alias for "Date", let me remind you that when you changed SMW_DVTime (the "Date" data type) to use its own parser instead of the Unix strtotime() call, you did not implement my "Anno Mundi" calendar nor even the Hillel II (Jewish) calendar. Those are deal-killers. I was able to roll everything back to SMW 1.3. Which means that my SMW_HxDateValue class works properly with the old code. So what exactly did you change in the implementation of SMW_DataValue, that puts my custom data type out of compliance? What sort of things should I check for? Does the total size of the file have anything to do with it? My file SMW_DVHxDate.php is 44 KB in size. Is that a deal-killer in SMW 1.4 and higher? I think the real problem is that you have changed the store. How do I know that? Well, when I installed the code checkecd out of Subversion, I ran the refresh script. That's when everything broke. Then I rolled my code back, but whenever I went to a page containing an annotated historical date, I got a "database error" notice, and the error traced to the SMW store (something about an "unknown column" in a table). So I had to run refreshData by hand multiple times, and when I did that, everything worked the way it always had. Bottom line: I'm likely to stay permanently at SMW 1.3 unless I can get some assistance on how to migrate my custom date datatype to comply with the new code. Temlakos ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
