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Re: [mv] Undefined catalog:
****** message to minivend-users from cfm@maine.com ******
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:20:58PM -0500, Mike Heins wrote:
> ****** message to minivend-users from Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com> ******
>
> Quoting cfm@maine.com (cfm@maine.com):
> > If someone doesn't understand web server, permissions, paths and so
> > on and their installation fails, it's not a minivend bug. Rather,
> > if it succeeds under those conditions it is instead a minivend MIRACLE.
>
> Thank you for the vote of confidence on the install. I sometimes too
> think it is a miracle that so many people are able to install Minivend.
> You should have gone through the V1.03 installation -- come to think of
> it, Christopher, you probably did. 8-) You have been using this stuff since
> Vend, right? That would make almost 5 years now.
yes and no. We just clone catalogs and never touch makecat. I did
try once to install minivend straight from CPAN just to see what happened.
Purely experimental and it almost worked. :-)
> > That being said, some sort of a minivend-bug.pl script like that used
> > for mysql or emacs would probably be a good idea. It would describe
> > system, users, permissions, installation, and how the user can duplicate
> > the problem or it is not a bug. Perhaps a separate mailing list, rather
> > than a web page would be less work?
> >
>
> That is a good idea -- I tried that once with a "report_problem" script,
> but so rarely did I get enlightening information about the problem that
> I gave up on it. (Long time mail list members may remember seeing its
> output sent to the list.) Perhaps I can resurrect it.
Send it along if you can find it and we'll take a cut at it. We only do
linux so we'll only be able to take it so far.
cfm
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Christopher F. Miller, Publisher cfm@maine.com
MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039
1.207.657.5078 http://www.maine.com/
Database publishing, e-commerce, office/internet integration, Debian linux.
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