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Re: Re: new box

Posted by Mylesc on Tue Sep 15 18:25:14 1998 In Reply to: Re: new box posted by

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>The new box may be Pandora's.
>
>We have to get quite a few things tightened up, I say,
>before we lift the lid.
>
>I am very unhappy with working on a live machine, and so propose to
>buy an additional box for off line development at 77 Hurst St.
>
>I know WilliamC has at least one Linux box, but think that TimJ should
>think about purchasing a local machine.
Tim has allowed myself to install Access97, so the DB angle of
all this is lessened. He might want a Linux Box anyway...
>The integration of Paneris with panerisdev is something which
>needs to be planned and agreed. In particular I would be unhappy with
>all of my work for the last x years being thrown away.
>
>The upgrade path that I envisage is that the PMS is
>ported to a local machine at 77 Hurst Street.
>I would integrate paneris functionality with the PMS,
>thereby coming to understand how the DBI works.
Which functionality are you considering incorporating?
>We have dropped the ball a bit as we have not got
>some of the prerequisites to run PMS locally.
Only in retrospect (this document is, I think, new) but
point taken.
>At the moment the outstanding actions/options seem to be:
>1. Port PMS to McMeric (my localhost) and use Access95
We could have done this months ago. The problem is that the
DB on panerisdev is in Access97 format.
>2. Port PMS to McMeric and buy Access97 (:()
>3. Port PMS to McMeric and use free Win95 compatible DB
Does anyone know of one?
>4. Port PMS to new Linux box (Eric6)
>5. Not bother, buy new linux box (named ....), install PMS,
>port a bit of Paneris and throw away the rest. (:()
Why do we have to throw away any of Paneris? So long as we
can define mutliple CGI directories to keep things separated,
if necessary...
>Next issue is the domain name of new machine.
>We can, and perhaps should, put www.paneris.co.uk and
>www.hoop.co.uk on it.
>
>But perhaps we should move up to www.paneris.org(.uk)?
>What then should we do with www.paneris.co.uk and
>www.hoop.co.uk?
To some extent Paneris is your name, and HOOP is certainly
Tim's, so I'd say it was up to you two.
>I would very much like MylesC to port PMS to my local machine,
>with or without data, on any DB he likes, so that I can get on
>with the above.
In a couple of weeks, at least.
>
>yours
>TimP
Myles

>>The new box may be Pandora's.
>>
>>We have to get quite a few things tightened up, I say, 
>>before we lift the lid. 
>>
>>I am very unhappy with working on a live machine, and so propose to 
>>buy an additional box for off line development at 77 Hurst St.
>>
>>I know WilliamC has at least one Linux box, but think that TimJ should 
>>think about purchasing a local machine.

>Tim has allowed myself to install Access97, so the DB angle of
>all this is lessened. He might want a Linux Box anyway...

>>The integration of Paneris with panerisdev is something which 
>>needs to be planned and agreed. In particular I would be unhappy with 
>>all of my work for the last x years being thrown away. 
>>
>>The upgrade path that I envisage is that the PMS is 
>>ported to a local machine at 77 Hurst Street. 
>>I would integrate paneris functionality with the PMS, 
>>thereby coming to understand how the DBI works.

>Which functionality are you considering incorporating?

>>We have <a href='/rules#Guidelines#Innovation'>dropped the ball</a> a bit as we have not got 
>>some of the prerequisites to run PMS locally.

>Only in retrospect (this document is, I think, new) but
>point taken.

>>At the moment the outstanding actions/options seem to be:

>>1. Port PMS to McMeric (my localhost) and use Access95

>We could have done this months ago. The problem is that the
>DB on panerisdev is in Access97 format.

>>2. Port PMS to McMeric and buy Access97 (:()
>>3. Port PMS to McMeric and use free Win95 compatible DB

>Does anyone know of one?

>>4. Port PMS to new Linux box (Eric6)
>>5. Not bother, buy new linux box (named ....), install PMS, 
>>port a bit of Paneris and throw away the rest.  (:()

>Why do we have to throw away any of Paneris? So long as we
>can define mutliple CGI directories to keep things separated,
>if necessary...

>>Next issue is the domain name of new machine. 
>>We can, and perhaps should, put www.paneris.co.uk and 
>>www.hoop.co.uk on it.
>>
>>But perhaps we should move up to www.paneris.org(.uk)?
>>What then should we do with www.paneris.co.uk and 
>>www.hoop.co.uk?

>To some extent Paneris is your name, and HOOP is certainly
>Tim's, so I'd say it was up to you two.

>>I would very much like MylesC to port PMS to my local machine, 
>>with or without data, on any DB he likes, so that I can get on 
>>with the above.

>In a couple of weeks, at least.

>>
>>yours
>>TimP

>Myles

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