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  • From: Jon Phillips <jon AT rejon.org>
  • To: Victor Stone <fourstones.net AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] Documentation for ccHost 4.5?
  • Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:05:52 -0800

Here here...I agree with VS...you guys should totally use 5 and help
us track down the bugs...if you are using anything other than latest,
its not really actively backported with fixes.

Please use 5.0.1 of ccHost!

Jon

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Victor Stone <fourstones.net AT gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Markus Petersen <markus AT mdev.dk> wrote:
>> You are, of course, right. The problem is that our time is constrained
>> very much, and the newest release of ccHost seemed very easily
>> breakable and not "polished". Suddenly it would stop working after
>> just changing the configuration in the administration panel, or the
>> uploads would fail without any further notices. We have not
>> encountered any of this in 4.5. Normally we would submit a lot of bug
>> reports, but in our case, it was just easier to revert to 4.5.
>>
>> I hope you are not offended by my words. But 4.5 is probably what we
>> are going to continue working with. So to come back to my original
>> question: is there documentation available for 4.5?
>
> The docs for 4.5 are here
> http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/cchost/docs/
>
> for TODAY - but they could easily disappear as that part of the CC
> servers are moved around and re-cast any minute.
>
> No one is offended here but I am a little confused - the ccHost 5.0
> code has been up and operating on ccMixter for exactly a year (!) and
> (trust me) the admin's bang on the admin/config screens a lot!
>
> I'm sorry to hear that you have encountered issues but I can not
> encourage STRONGLY enough to just be a little more patient with 5.0
> and just report the bugs to the database, or this list or just my
> private email and I can bang them out. I would be shocked if they are
> anything more than typos or missing 'require()' and other trivial
> issues ("trivial" for me, frustrating and time consuming for you, I
> understand).
>
> Heed this: Whatever short terms gains you think you are getting from
> reverting to 4.5 will cost you in the long run as opposed to 5.x - I
> know, I run a big, popular ccHost site ;)
>
> VS
>



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Jon Phillips
http://rejon.org/




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