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9: Estimates and Hope
In response to 8 02/19/06 08:41 AM
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Ernie,

Based on what I saw I thought there might be some issues. However, 1.0 is such a great tool for what I do I will be patient.

One question that you may or may not be able to answer: Will it be technically feasible to run both 1.0 and 1.1 at the same time? In other words, if importing sequences is problematic will I be able to just keep a legacy copy of 1.0 on the server and continue running sequences that I'm creating now and build new ones in 1.1 going forward?

As a user (not a developer) I certainly appreciate all the great things the development community accomplishes.

Thanks again,

Dean

Posted by Dean Shankle

10: Re: Estimates and Hope
In response to 9 02/19/06 09:09 AM
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Hi Dean,

> Will it be technically feasible to run both 1.0 and 1.1 at
> the same time?

Excellent question...

On top of my head, I believe you would have no problems running two versions of JBOSS (the application server that LAMS 1.0.x and 1.1 use) to run both instances of LAMS (in a same server). If you have this in two server, then that's trivial.

In principle, you can still run your old sequences in 1.0.x but all your new ones will be on 1.1. The single-sign-on bits should work for both instances of LAMS without a problem. However, there's a minor modification to the LAMS/Moodle module to send the students to the right instance of LAMS. But again, that modification is quite trivial.

Woow... It's good to think that we can accommodate for this even if we didn't design it to work like that. :-)

> As a user (not a developer) I certainly appreciate all
> the great things the development community accomplishes.

Well, with 1.1 there's going to be a lot of testing involved and we would like to have power users like you to help us with the testing.

As much as we like developers :-), we also need people that have a clear understanding of useful use cases based on their experience, exposure to clients, etc. Having read some of your postings in the LAMS Community and the LD Book Study at moodle.org, I think you fit this profile perfectly ;-) So please don't hesitate to participate even if you are not a tech-head.

And your last question just perfectly exemplify this... as we -techos- never thought of having a Moodle server with two different instances of LAMS running.

So your comments are very much welcome and helpful!

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

11: Sounds good!
In response to 10 02/19/06 10:25 AM
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Ernie,

Thanks for your encouragement. I will glady be part of the testing (yes, on a separate server) and I will keep using your excellent product and continue to point out ways that you can make it better. :-)

Dean

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