[Laszlo-dev] Does anyone care about the "Internal Index"? [Was: link to release notes from trunk nightly broken]

[P T Withington]

I think a better idea would be to put a 'force recompile' button on  
the developer console.

On 2009-02-16, at 06:29EST, Lou Iorio wrote:

> This was in quick-index.html in the form of the Admin console link,  
> which
> was also in
> laszlo explorer. It was removed from all three places when we  
> removed the
> Admin console.
> Perhaps I was over-zealous?
>
> The internal index did not have a link to the Admin console, but had
> individual links that
> look like this:
>
> <li><a href="foo.lzx?lzt=clearcache&amp;pwd=laszlo">Clear cache</a></ 
> li>
>
> If we need to bring any of this stuff back, I would prefer to put it  
> in
> quick-index.html,
> laszlo explorer, or both, and get rid of index.jsp.
>
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Henry Minsky <hqm at alum.mit.edu>  
> wrote:
>
>> There was at one time a link to clear the server cache on the
>> "internal" index, which I think wasn't on the 'release' index. We
>> ought to have some kind of page that is easy to find that tells
>> developers this magic
>> incantation, at least if a developer gets to the point they are brave
>> enough to recompile the LFC.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:10 PM, P T Withington <ptw at pobox.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> As best I can tell, /index.jsp is intended to be useful to 'internal
>>> development' by having more stuff than the distribution index  
>>> (which is a
>>> filtered copy of quick-index, which is a styled copy of the explorer
>> nav).
>>> Having a different index for internal vs. distribution builds is
>> confusing
>>> and probably just asking for trouble.
>>>
>>> If no one cares about this differentiation any more, lets get rid  
>>> of the
>>> .jsp and just generate /index.html directly from the explorer nav,
>>> appropriately styled and filtered.
>>>
>>> DEVELOPERS:  Speak now if you want to keep index.jsp!
>>>
>>> On 2009-02-15, at 11:27EST, Lou Iorio wrote:
>>>
>>>> So what's your opinion on this? I would have though this could have
>>>> been moved as part of LPP-7756.
>>>>
>>>> I'm building not to check that out.
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Lou Iorio <lou at louiorio.com>
>>>> Date: Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 3:49 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Laszlo-dev] link to release notes from trunk nightly
>> broken
>>>> To: P T Withington <ptw at pobox.com>
>>>> Cc: OpenLaszlo Developers <laszlo-dev at openlaszlo.org>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Filed as http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-7756
>>>>
>>>> On a similar subject, there is a file trunk/index.jsp with the  
>>>> title
>>>> "Internal Index for trunk", which is nearly identical to
>> quick-index.html,
>>>> but not as up to date. This is what you see if you point your  
>>>> browser at
>>>> trunk. It seems like that can go away, and quick-index.html
>>>> renamed to the more standard index.html.
>>>>
>>>> This file is generated by quick-index.xslt, which should probably  
>>>> go
>> into
>>>> docs/src/xsl.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2/14/09, P T Withington <ptw at pobox.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, the nightly build does something completely different. I  
>>>>> need to
>>>>> move
>>>>> what the nightly does to our normal build process so there are  
>>>>> less
>>>>> surprises. I will probably end up moving the notes (and other .txt
>> files)
>>>>> to
>>>>> doc/src so they can be moved up to top level by the build.
>>>>>
>>>>> As a bonus, when the files are moved, I will replace the keywords
>>>>> @VERSIONID@, etc. with the actual numbers. I hope to have a  
>>>>> change for
>>>>> you
>>>>> to review by tomorrow.
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be great if you could file a bug to track this. Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 14, 2009, at 9:12, Lou Iorio <lou at louiorio.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The link to the release notes from here:
>>>>>
>>>>> <http://labs.openlaszlo.org/trunk-nightly/index.html>
>>>>> http://labs.openlaszlo.org/trunk-nightly/index.html
>>>>>
>>>>> gives a 404 error. I moved release-notes.html last week from  
>>>>> trunk/docs
>>>>> to trunk, and the link works in trunk, so something apparently  
>>>>> needs to
>>>>> be
>>>>> updated.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Henry Minsky
>> Software Architect
>> hminsky at laszlosystems.com
>>