[Openfontlibrary] cchost5 and OFL

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 12:04 +0200, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> Dave Crossland wrote:
> > 2008/10/2 Ben Weiner <ben at readingtype.org.uk>:
> >> can you tell me the degree to
> >> which cchost 4 was hacked (ie, the through-the-web interface
> >> was not used) to set it up for OFL? I'm really struggling, in
> >> the absence of docs, to get my head around cchost 5.
> > 
> > AFAIK the only significant delta between ccHost 4 release and OFLB's
> > ccHost is that the OFL license plugin was added, and the text in the
> > theme was changed to be about fonts instead of music. Alex and Nicolas
> > might also be able to comment on this.
> 
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I should have time this week-end to clean up and publish my OFL
> integration patch along with some installation documentation... (A few
> path and variables had to be adjusted against v5 trunk).

It would be great to get this somewhere public before weekend is over.

> IIRC there were other changes in the rest of the site:
> some xml files (like guidelines.xml) were also modified to turn ccHost
> from a music-oriented site to a fonts-oriented site.

Yes, right, but nothing core ccHost was modified. Everything is just
skins, plugins, and xml files.

> Could someone with access to the OFLB server please provide a dump of
> the current db (and a tarball of the vhost) so we can look at the
> configuration? Thanks.

I can't get to until sat. beijing time. Is this ok?
> 
> >> the v4 docs pages warning me that v5 will be different!
> > 
> > http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Preparing_for_ccHost_5.0 may help

Tis true! If you post up what you have done publicly somewhere, then I
can look at as well...

I want to do the move to ccHost 5 and see where we are at...victor
showed me how before, so I just need to do a test of...and doing OFLB
might be much easier before doing OCAL...

Jon

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