[Test Build] MODx 0.9.2 preliminary test versions

Quote from: Djamoer at Mar 24, 2006, 07:43 PM

Quote from: rthrash at Mar 24, 2006, 03:31 PM

Now as far as getting to "idiot proof", the new kickstart/bootstrap installer is going to blow folks away. Imagine doing an install or an upgrade takes simply uploading a tiny 10-30KB file to your server and opening that page. It downloads all the libraries that are needed, downloads a .zip archive of the distribution, does a checksum on it, as needed archives your existing install, unzips the new files, sets the permissions properly, copies in your custom assets and config file, then starts the real installer (which flies through since everything is set up right).

That’s a great news, my only concern is, will this be compatible with most hosting company permission? I’m a newbie, so any explanation or clarificaiton to this will be awesome.

That’s actually one of the main goals of the bootstrapper. The two main goals I have for it are:
1) Reduce the nonsense of having download a zip file, unzip it, and then having to ftp 100s of files to your website and
2) Don’t make people think about permissions on the server. Most people don’t know and don’t care how that stuff works

Now to be honest we’re not going to be able to do this for 100% of the setups out there as some people have pretty wacky-ass hosting environments. But the way the code is today, it should work for a large, large majority of the sites out there.

Victor

Cool,

I do also know that we can wrap up the whole files in one executeable file for php to run and extracted the file automatically, instead of having 1 executeable file that will download the needed files one by one from the central server. It’s just another option though. Whichever it’s, I believe you guys have the best solution.

MODx rule!

I think we’re going to do one small file solely for the sake of it being just plain cool that installing only takes that tiny few Kb.

Quote from: rthrash at Mar 24, 2006, 03:31 PM

Now as far as getting to "idiot proof", the new kickstart/bootstrap installer is going to blow folks away. Imagine doing an install or an upgrade takes simply uploading a tiny 10-30KB file to your server and opening that page. It downloads all the libraries that are needed, downloads a .zip archive of the distribution, does a checksum on it, as needed archives your existing install, unzips the new files, sets the permissions properly, copies in your custom assets and config file, then starts the real installer (which flies through since everything is set up right).

:-*

@banzai: Would you like to post the sizes of MODx logos used in manager, so I can export real logo to use in manager ... or let me know if I provide you with large high-res version, so you can scale down it at your own accordingly ?

Large high-res option is better IMO ...... http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,3634.0.html

regards,

zi

Quote from: Djamoer at Mar 25, 2006, 03:13 PM

Cool,

I do also know that we can wrap up the whole files in one executeable file for php to run and extracted the file automatically, instead of having 1 executeable file that will download the needed files one by one from the central server. It’s just another option though. Whichever it’s, I believe you guys have the best solution.

MODx rule!

Not quite that easy. The bootstrapper is designed to be as minimal as possible so that it will run on as many different systems as possible. Once it runs, it figures out what it needs and downloads that.

The one package option doesn’t even come close to working on most of the setups out there. For example, if you have a php build w/o the zip library support compiled it, now do you suggest handling that via one big package?

It’s easy to say "just do it automatically", it’s much harder to actually do in practice

This is the last fix for rev 853 - i’ve fixed the last (very hidden) missing icons in the manager:

Changes

- files.dynamic.action.php fixed last missing icons (fixed 25/03/2006)

- move_document.dynamic.action.php (fixed 24/03/2006)

- mutate_tmplvars.dynamic.action.php (fixed 24/03/2006)

- mutate_snippet.dynamic.action.php (fixed 24/03/2006)

- document_data.static.action.php (fixed 26/03/2006)

- wait.static.action.php (fixed 26/03/2006)

- Green Manager/style.css (fixed 26/03/2006)


Now a think there are no more missing icons.

We need to resolve the issue with context menu (3.php) Internet Explorer - or remove it and use the same used for other browser.

zip files contains only updated from for rev 853

UPDATED:

Ok, got 893 installed from SVN and caught these bugs so far:

For the default MODx theme (not green) with clean install and demo site the topbar is black!

Also some of the default css has a few padding issues

Green Theme

Need fieldset and form element padding

Greenmenu top menu item bg goes 1px too low

Blue around the preview iframe

There are underlines on the left buttons in the document tree and at the top of editing documents.

We seem to have lost table padding

Missing: manager/media/images/icons/event2.gif

Missing: manager/media/images/icons/context_view.gif

Missing: manager/media/images/icons/blank.png

Missing: manager/media/style/MODxGreen/images/_tx_.gif

Site Schedule page is missing text???

Remove locks NO LONGER WORKS in the Green Theme

Mark - do you have a test for the ’Remove Locks’ item? It seems to go through the motions on mine but I would like to get a repeatable test for it

For the Site Schedule page, I think we’re missing some entries in the English language file. At least, I couldn’t find them.

On Green Theme:

Just noticed there’s a blue outline on the ’gridHeader’ class as well. And have the font-sizes of the tree menu and top menu got bigger for anyone (I’m on WinXP, FF 1.5.0.1) ? Not that I’m complaining, I actually quite like it bigger.

Also, some of the description text (eg. System Configuration) is so small on IE6 it’s really difficult to read.

Is there anyway for us without SVN access to get rev893 so that we’re up to date for testing ?

Thanks