OpenGuides-Dev July 2003

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Fwd: [j.chetwynd@btinternet.com: GPS and Zaurus]
by Earle Martin 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

----- Forwarded message from Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd(a)btinternet.com> ----- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:22:21 +0100 From: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd(a)btinternet.com> To: contact(a)openguides.org Subject: GPS and Zaurus Hi, met two of you at SVG at the Zoo conference, and would like to contribute GPS data for Central London Tourist attractions. live in Vauxhall very near London Eye, as requested! please can you advise me: is there anything about Compact Flash GPS cards to be aware of? do you know what software ( http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/search.php?q=gps ) is easiest or best*? is there any other good reason for purchasing a cf gps card? thanks Jonathan Chetwynd http://www.peepo.com http://www.peepo.com/svg/!home.svg *strongArm linux: Sharp Zaurus sl-c750 ----- End forwarded message ----- Please CC any replies to Jonathan.... -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896ee10f05ea986de18af6277e9a1d8ef4696644569a1d". "8ef46961ae1e64277e9896eea7d92ea8003e9a1d8ef4696f6950";$b="8ALB6AIA4.BA2";$c= join"",unpack"C*",$b;$c=~s/7/2/g;@b=split"",$c;foreach$d(@b){$e=hex(substr($a ,$f,$d));while(length($e)<8){substr($e,0,0)=0;}print pack"b8",$e;$f+=$d;}

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Bug tracking
by Earle Martin 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

Rather than use a structureless wiki page for bug reports (that is to say, the Bug Reports page) I've now moved everything current to the CPAN RT page for OpenGuides. http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=OpenGuides -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896ee10f05ea986de18af6277e9a1d8ef4696644569a1d". "8ef46961ae1e64277e9896eea7d92ea8003e9a1d8ef4696f6950";$b="8ALB6AIA4.BA2";$c= join"",unpack"C*",$b;$c=~s/7/2/g;@b=split"",$c;foreach$d(@b){$e=hex(substr($a ,$f,$d));while(length($e)<8){substr($e,0,0)=0;}print pack"b8",$e;$f+=$d;}

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[OpenGuides-Dev] consume.openguides
by jo walsh 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

hey openguides, now i'm static again for a bit, thinking about the openguides for consume.net project again. we have a dedicated box for consume.openguides, and any manner of mapping and wireless stuff. it's a quad xeon SGI that lives at deckspace. all it has now is an IP - 81.3.72.69 i'm wondering if it would be poss to set up an A record for it, so it can be consume.openguides.org ? then, it can be openguides.consume.net too, when the time comes. matt's sysadmining it, ask him for accounts... what we actually doing with it for consume? partly replacing the twiki, partly making a comments+better mapping interface for the nodedb. wondering about best way to differentiate wireless node wiki nodes, from documentation wiki nodes - hex had some ideas at one point... i'm planning to make a very simple RDF/XML interface, a POE or mod_perl job, to the current nodedb once we get a copy of the data - the usual mysql-based triplestore with Squish.pm - just as an intermediate interface, and because i have that code already. i'm also thinking about patching the RSS bit of CGI::Wiki, to look at the category bit of the node - i wrote a tt-based simple RDF serialiser the other week - mmm sudden dreams of autogen an ontology from the category hierarchy again - anyway. i could do with some advice on packaging multiple modules in one package for CPAN, and figuring out where and how to install templates... for an RDF::Simple package with parser and serialiser elsewhere, i'm tweaking people about SVG mapservers and extrapolating shapes from GPS traces and annotating them, etc. i hope i'm actually making sense in front of the geowankers. bounce bounce, zx -- "Common sense won't tell you. We have to tell each other." -DNA

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Diff feature bug report
by Earle Martin 19 Jul '03

19 Jul '03

Howdy do, As it stands, the diff feature shows checksums: http://openguides.org/london/?id=Mile_End_Park&version=2&diffversion=3 This is not information of relevance to the user and so should be hidden. Also, the diff links on the List All Versions pages all compare each version to the most recent revision, which means that the top one will always return "Contents are identical"; these links should compare each version to the one preceding it instead. There should probably be a conditional (if version == 1) replacing the diff link for version 1 with something like "original version", or just nothing, instead. -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896ee10f05ea986de18af6277e9a1d8ef4696644569a1d". "8ef46961ae1e64277e9896eea7d92ea8003e9a1d8ef4696f6950";$b="8ALB6AIA4.BA2";$c= join"",unpack"C*",$b;$c=~s/7/2/g;@b=split"",$c;foreach$d(@b){$e=hex(substr($a ,$f,$d));while(length($e)<8){substr($e,0,0)=0;}print pack"b8",$e;$f+=$d;}

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Re: CGI::Wiki and OpenGuides
by Kate L Pugh 11 Jul '03

11 Jul '03

On Fri 11 Jul 2003, Jody Belka <belkajm(a)aardvark-ss.com> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Kate L Pugh wrote: > > > 1) could it be possible to tell OG that the main script is accessible as > > > the default page for the mapped url, and then when doing a simple display > > > of the home page removing the script name from it? > > > > Not sure I follow this one. > > > [...] > what i meant here, is that if i have http://birmingham.openguides.org/ set > up to map to http://birmingham.openguides.org/index.cgi (which, as a > matter of fact i do), it would be nice if the "Home" links referred to the > first of these, rather than the second, seeing as there are no parameters > being passed in to the script. Give it a blank script_name in your config file. Kake

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Re: OpenGuides v0.18 Bugs
by Kate L Pugh 11 Jul '03

11 Jul '03

On Fri 11 Jul 2003, Alex McLintock <alex(a)owal.co.uk> wrote: > 1) A particular version of CGI.pm is required since earlier versions don't > seem to have unescape. > eg > Undefined subroutine &CGI::unescape called at > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/CGI/Coo etc Wow, you must have an old CGI.pm - I've added a prereq of 2.76 since I can't work out from the docs exactly when unescape appeared. That's in CVS and will be in 0.21. > 2) Are you supposed to be able to install it through the CPAN shell? if not > then can you disable it somehow? > > 3) Is it necessary to install DBD::Pg even if you aren't using Postgres? It > was a bit irritating being told it was a required module. I think both these problems are related to the Makefile.PL being created automatically by Module::Build. The CPAN shell can't cope with Build.PL, and the auto-created Makefile.PL doesn't have the prompts and things in. Short answer - install Module::Build and follow the instructions in INSTALL, or use CPANPLUS. > 4) Is it supposed to be City based only or can I have one for awhole > country? (I'm thinking of doing a Cyprus one - which frankly isn't big > enough to require separate wiki's for separate towns). I don't see why a whole country one wouldn't work. It'd be great if you could try it. > 5) I get this warning... > ListTables is deprecated, use $dbh->tables() at > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/DBD/mysql.pm line 272. > Do you know if that is down to and old DBD::MySQL? or a slight mistake in > your tests? See the last paragraph of http://the.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi/os.pod/Thursday_26_June_2003 :) Try upgrading things. If you can find the actual module that triggers it I'd be really grateful. We're not calling ListTables explicitly anywhere. > 6) How many different OpenGuides can you install on one box? As many as you like! The auto-generated Config module will get installed centrally though, so you do need to make sure you go through the install procedure fully in order to give it the details of your new install. > I am trying to install a second (v 0.18, after v0.16) but it is > picking up some of the OLD installation during the tests. eg > > Search::InvertedIndex::DB::DB_File_SplitHash::_open_multi_map() - Failed to > lock the -map_name 't/sii-db-file-test.db' to lock mode 'EX': > Search::InvertedIndex::DB::DB_File_SplitHash::lock() - Unable to obtain a > 'EX' lock on the map: Resource temporarily unavailable at > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Search/InvertedIndex.pm line 282 > > at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Search/InvertedIndex.pm line 282 > (in cleanup) Search::InvertedIndex::DB::Mysql::lock() - foyleswiki > is not open. Can't lock. Are these two separate error messages or are they connected? If two separate, then I'm a lot more interested in the first one, since the second is explained below. Can you let me know more details? > foyleswiki is my old v0.16 Wiki and not the one I am trying to install. I > don't see where it got "foyleswiki" from cause I didn't enter it in the > perl Build.PL config setup. I'm guessing that you entered it as a test database when you last installed CGI::Wiki? Later versions of CGI::Wiki have an explicit warning not to do that, but in general *don't* ever test things on live databases, or databases that ever will be live! Kake

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[OpenGuides-Dev] OpenGuides 0.19 released
by Kate L Pugh 11 Jul '03

11 Jul '03

Just escaped to CPAN - OpenGuides 0.19. Here's the Changes entry: 0.19 25 June 2003 [oops] Extra checks that script_url ends in a '/'. Fixed small bug with edit conflict form - map link field was missing. Moved "content" div in a couple of templates to fix incorrect nesting. @INDEX_LINK macros now have optional title text like so: @INDEX_LINK [[Category Pubs|Pubs]] Added preferences option for including or excluding text formatting rules link in navbar. Enable this by setting text_formatting_node in your config file. Added config option for including the navbar on the home page. Implemented minor edits. Kake

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Re: CGI::Wiki and OpenGuides
by Kate L Pugh 10 Jul '03

10 Jul '03

On Sun 29 Jun 2003, Jody Belka <belkajm(a)aardvark-ss.com> wrote: > 1) when doing the 'make test' for CGI::Wiki after telling it during the > 'perl Makefile.PL' stage to use a remote mysql server for the tests it > tries to use a local server for the dbixfts and search_invertedindex stuff > (and therefore fails on those tests) Thanks, will look at this after I do an OpenGuides release. > 2) the OpenGuides cookie is set as a session only cookie. not sure if this > is intentional or not, but thought it'd mention it Fixed in CVS, thanks! > 3) the OpenGuides cookie has the incorrect path info in it. on my site the > path info should be '/birmingham/', but it is just '/'. now i know the > cookies wouldn't clash if i had another OG site as the cookie name would > be different, but i still think it should be set correctly I think this might be a bit of a faff to set correctly; setting this one aside for now. > 4) the supersearch script doesn't have a -w on the hash-bang line. i know > it has a 'use warnings' statement, but as i'm running my installation on > 5.005_03 i had to comment all the use warnings lines out. Sorted in CVS. > 5) none of the scripts is running in taint mode. tut tut tut Sorting this will require a patch to Search::InvertedIndex; I've put it on the to-do list. > 6) not sure if this would really be counted as a bug or a feature request, > but it would be nice if build system for OG would add a 'use lib' > statement to each script if it is being installed into a private perl > library instead of the system perl library. i had to go through and add > this manually to get everything working. Could you suggest this to the Module::Build people? This would be very useful. > 1) could it be possible to tell OG that the main script is accessible as > the default page for the mapped url, and then when doing a simple display > of the home page removing the script name from it? Not sure I follow this one. Kake

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Re: CGI::Wiki and OpenGuides
by Kate L Pugh 10 Jul '03

10 Jul '03

On Sun 29 Jun 2003, Jody Belka <belkajm(a)aardvark-ss.com> wrote: > another bug: the wiki.conf file is installed as executable. doesn't need > to be so should really shouldn't be [...] Fixed in CVS, will be in the 0.19 release. Thanks! Kake

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Re: openguides feature request
by Kate L Pugh 10 Jul '03

10 Jul '03

On Thu 26 Jun 2003, Michael Stevens <mstevens(a)etla.org> wrote: > Feature request: a link to the text formatting rules on the > edit page, so when you get there and you've forgotten how to > achieve a particular effect, they're easily available. The latest OpenGuides CVS (will be released RSN as 0.19) has a link to the text formatting rules in the nav bar, turnable off by setting a prefs option. Thanks for the idea! Kake

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