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

[Max Carlson]

I added a link to lzt=html a while ago - it could go next to that!

Henry Minsky wrote:
> That's a good idea..
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:08 AM, P T Withington <ptw at pobox.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>>>
>>
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Max Carlson
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