I'm not 100% sure this is correct, but... I think the main features missing are related to internationalization. Arsdigita added some functions to the C and TCL APIs that OpenACS uses. (ns_charsets, ns_encodingfortype, ns_encodingforcharset, etc.) AOLserver 4.0 uses some similar functions internally and makes them available in the C API, but not in the TCL API. (Ns_ConnGetEncoding, Ns_GetCharsetEncoding, etc.) I think there's less charset support in 3.5.1 than 4.0, though there's been work to forward port the ad13 changes to 3.4 that might be useful. There hasn't been a lot of testing, but OpenACS seems to work with 3.5.1 if you aren't using multiple charsets. More information here: http://www.collaboraid.biz/extranet/i18n/forums/message-view?message_id=4034
http://www.collaboraid.biz/extranet/i18n/ There also used to be an issue of additional/patched modules (nsoracle, nspostgres, nscache, nssha1, ...) but all of these except the updated nspostgres have been moved into SF I think. There are a few other minor differences, like SF patch #474259. Nathan, could we add discussion of an integration effort to the agenda for next week's chat? I can ask the OpenACS people working on i18n to attend. Thanks! Jamie Nathan Folkman wrote:
What are the major differences that would need to be bridged between the stock 3.5.1 code base and 3.3+ad13. There seems to be a large amount of email, bugs, etc. around the ad versions. Would things become easier if we were all working from a single common code base? ...I know this is a somewhat loaded question, but I'm curious as to what features are considered missing from the 3.5.1 code base. Thanks! - n
