Jerome, Ok thanks for the SVN advice as well. I guess I'll tag a PROD as well :-)
Regards, Patrick Mackaaij On Dec 29, 11:19 pm, "Jerome (Guru)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > Regarding your first question, yes, aliasing (relocating) a gadget is > transparent to the user. I have not aliased any of my gadgets, but > from what I've seen and read, your end users will keep their user > prefs. > > Tagging versions in SVN to keep track of major revisions is a good > idea, but I would strongly suggest you do not submit a revision tag of > your gadget in the directory, otherwise, as you commented, you would > end up aliasing your gadget for each major revision. I would think > that the best option would be to submit a version with a tag you move > to the production version (a "prod" tag). I personally serve my gadget > from my hosting servers, so I have not experimented much with the > different options to use SVN tagging to identify the production > version of the gadget. > > Jerome > > On Dec 29, 9:58 pm, Mackaaij <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Jerome, > > > I don't like loosing my rating though it's more important that the end > > user settings are retained. Are the end user settings retained?\ > > > Another question you, as a guru, might also know (if you know about > > SVN as well). I tagged a version with SVN since I thought it would be > > appropriate for a release. If I update a iGadget in the future, a new > > tag would be applicable and I'd have to file an alias change again. > > This would vote for submitting the SVN trunk, right? What would be > > your advise on this? > > > Regards, > > > Patrick Mackaaij > > > On 22 dec, 17:30, "Jerome (Guru)" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Patrick, > > > > As you can see on top of this group, there is a sticky thread which > > > explains the procedure to make the changes you are need done. The > > > issue though is that this change will loose your ranking, user > > > comments, etc. which does not seem what you are looking forward > > > to. :-) > > > > Please see this previous thread about this issue of aliasing causing > > > lost of ranking and > > > comment:http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API/browse_thread/threa... > > > and visit the link to the iGoogle issue tracker where you can star the > > > related issue. The more developers on the issue, the better chances to > > > get a workable solution put in place. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jerome > > > > On Dec 21, 5:04 pm, Mackaaij <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > Since I've switched to Google code as a host (using Subversion). Is it > > > > possible to change the location for my Gadget users while retaining > > > > their settings? It concerns the following iGoogle Gadgets: > > > > > WEATHERNEWS > > > > NEDERLAND:http://www.xs4all.nl/~mackaaij/Google%2520Gadgets/Weathernews/Weather... > > > > to:http://weathernews.googlecode.com/svn/tags/REL-1.0/Weathernews.xml > > > > > POSTCODEROUTEPLANNER: > > > > (seems not to be listed in the directory but I do get requests from > > > > the location google.com for this > > > > gadget)http://www.xs4all.nl/~mackaaij/Google%20Gadgets/Postcoderouteplanner/... > > > > to:http://postcoderouteplanner.googlecode.com/svn/tags/REL-1.0/Postcoder... > > > > > POSTCODEKILOMETERDECLARATIE:http://www.xs4all.nl/~mackaaij/Google%20Gadgets/Postcodekilometerdecl... > > > > to:http://postcodekilometerdeclaratie.googlecode.com/svn/tags/REL-1.0/po... > > > > > PORTFOLIOhttp://www.xs4all.nl/~mackaaij/Google%20Gadgets/Portfolio/Portfolio.xml > > > > to:http://portfoliogadget.googlecode.com/svn/tags/REL-1.0/Portfolio.xml > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > Patrick Mackaaij- Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht niet weergeven - > > > > - Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht weergeven -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
