[RAS] acis development

[Ivan Kurmanov]

Thomas,

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Thomas Krichel <krichel at openlib.org> wrote:
>> 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?
>
>  Yes. The change is that it uses one single serialization module
>  for all. That module tries Storable as well.

I've just noticed that the latest RePEc-Index does this:

$res=&Common::Data::inflate_json($val);

after reading the data from the db. The RAS database has all strings
in Storable format. Does inflate_json() expect Storable strings on
input?

>>  - are the xslt templates compatible with the RAS phrases?
>
>  The AC templates are namespace aware. That implies that the
>  phrases have to be put into the http://acis.openlib.org/ namespace.
>  That's a one-minute job.

sounds promising.

>>  - does it have any other changes that might turn out incompatible
>> with the current RAS setup?
>
>  When I did the conversion of the RAS presenter to the AC presenter,

what do you mean by that?

>  I did not convert the citaitions screens.
>

-ivan