[gnome-love] approval from sun and a last XML request [was Re: [gnome-love] wanted: php or cgi programmer with some spare time to help with gnome test spec]

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

BTW, just wanted to let everyone know that I've talked to the current
maintainer of this project at Sun and he's very open to using this code.

On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 23:44, fflewddur wrote:
> eep, i think that should do it.  i've got the demo up at
> www.shopindiego.net/gnome_test_specs/ and it seems to be working
> properly.  the index page uses a php script to generate a list of
> modules, which in turn generate a list of submodules, etc., so in theory
> you could just drop one in whereever it was needed and the system will
> work flawlessly.  however, you would need to ensure the new module
> includes all of the session and form code for compatibilty with the
> session management and cgi backend.  basically, it works great for
> making quick additions to the system, but for an 'offical' test module,
> it's probably much saner to add it to the perl config files, same as
> before.

Todd: question: if I drop a new file into one of the subdirectories,
will this page
http://www.shopindiego.net/gnome_test_specs/components/battery_charge_monitor_applet/
get updated?

> the layout has also been completely reworked.  cookies are now used for
> each session to remember the platform values, and much of the extra
> whitespace has been removed. 

This rocks.

> i couldn't figure out where the
> instruction html files are generated (or if they are at all...), so
> there's still a lot of cruft there that could go. 

AFAIK, they aren't- I think it's a template page that they fill in and
save. Before calling this a day and starting to push this into CVS, is
anyone still open to the idea of converting the test files to XML or
simple text, so that we can easily change their presentation?
Luis

> other than that, i
> think it's ready to be tested, cleaned up, and presented to sun :)
>
> todd
>
> On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 17:31, Luis Villa wrote:
> > > in fact, we could fill
> > > that giant white space on the main page with the form.
> >
> > Ooh. Hadn't thought of that. Nice touch.
> >
> > >  i'll take a look
> > > at implementing that latter tonight :)
> >
> > Awesome.
> > Luis
>
>
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