Re: Using database driven pages

2000-04-26 Thread Darren O. Benham
As a rule... just plan on NO mirroring of CGI driven pages... On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 09:59:37AM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > G'day, > The Debian Vendors page is getting rather large and, well a bit hard > to manage and read. I am thinking a database driven page would make > things easier for e

Re: Using database driven pages

2000-04-26 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 09:59:37AM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > G'day, > The Debian Vendors page is getting rather large and, well a bit hard > to manage and read. I am thinking a database driven page would make > things easier for everyone. > > I'd like to discuss with everyone here wether or

Re: Using database driven pages

2000-04-26 Thread Craig Small
[cc'ed to debian-admin because it will probably be their decision] On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 08:26:51PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > This would be a good test of how well dynamic pages will work with our site. > We can easily revert if we need to. My vote is to go for it. The next question is whe

Re: Using database driven pages

2000-04-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Craig Small wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 08:26:51PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > > This would be a good test of how well dynamic pages will work with our site. > > We can easily revert if we need to. My vote is to go for it. > A home for this sort of stuff does not ne

Re: Do you have a little place on w.d.o for a translation center ?

2000-04-26 Thread Martin Quinson
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Lele Gaifax wrote: > I think this is a very interesting work, and that it should be put on > the Debian site. Thanks. > I tried to run it at home, but it gave me a Perl error about > a missing Language.pm. What version (or packages) of Perl should I > use? Ooops, sorry.

Re: Using database driven pages

2000-04-26 Thread Thalia L. Hooker
To get around the mirroring issue, you could store the data into a database but use a cron script to generate the vendor pages at a pre-selected time. This is done in high traffic sites with data that doesn't change that often or when you don't need to see the changes until the next export. For

Re: DDP web now in webwml/english/doc/

2000-04-26 Thread peter karlsson
Josip Rodin: > Feel free to hail, comment, bitch, yell, whatever :) Just a small problem I found: The Makefile doesn't list dependencies on the ddp.wml template, which will prohibit the pages from being remade properly when it changes. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: DDP web now in webwml/english/doc/

2000-04-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 07:19:49PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > Just a small problem I found: The Makefile doesn't list dependencies on the > ddp.wml template, which will prohibit the pages from being remade properly > when it changes. Good catch. I've fixed it now by adding filename.$(LANGUAGE