[RAS] acis development

[Ivan Kurmanov]

Thomas & all,

I have not started any significant development of new features yet.
There were some minor changes and bug fixes, and I've done them on the
live RAS system before or soon after the migration.

Last week I've started working on integrating these changes back into
the ACIS development. And most of that is done, just a few minor items
left. I will soon be ready to share those patches with you, if you
want. But they are based on a 2007 version of ACIS, and some of them
you already have in your version.

The obstacles to using the latest ACIS version that are unresolved,
that we need to clarify are:

 - does it support Storable strings in the objects table, and the
resources table (etc.) and in the RI db?

 - are the xslt templates compatible with the RAS phrases?

 - does it have any other changes that might turn out incompatible
with the current RAS setup?

You probably know the answer to the first of these questions, but the
rest require careful examination and/or tests.



Another thought I'm having is: do we really need the installation
script and procedure in ACIS?  My thinking now is that it is mostly
superflous. We could work on ACIS code in the same files and
directories as it is installed now, without the reshuffling that the
install.sh does. Most of the work that bin/setup does can also be
removed (with help of modules like FindBin, etc.).

It would make developing easier. Publishing changes would be done via
darcs repo directly, not via packaged versions.

But that's a separate question, although related.


-ivan


On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Thomas Krichel <krichel at openlib.org> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
>  Is there any news regarding the state of development of ACIS
>  as requested by Christian?
>
>  I have not seen a patch to the ACIS software. Will Ivan's work be
>  a fork of ACIS?
>
>  I thought we had agreed to work on a test installation of the
>  current ACIS that I would prepare. I had not completed but I was not
>  far off the target, when I got snowed under by teaching. I can't
>  spend much of any time on this now but I can try to find some time
>  for this this week, because I have a little breather.
>
>  It now looks that coming mid-january, I will be able to spend
>  some serious time on ACIS. I will finish teaching an mid-March
>  and then be free to work on ACIS and AuthorClaim until September
>  next 2012.
>
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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