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Hi, Geoff,
Your diagnostic is indeed right on the point.
When I was testing the initial release of ck-ledger, 0.0.5
with RedFlag Linux (a major distro in China), the problem
was the included Postgres being 6.x.x. The way I
got around it, was to use a remote DB Server running
Postgres 7.x.x over RedHat 7.2.
With Mysql, there seems to be an indication that even
phpgroupware-0.9.12 requires Mysql-3.23+, due to
a key length limitation posted by Mysql-3.22.
I presume you could try to run a remote Postgres 7.x.x or
Mysql-3.23+ server over a non-Debian distro to
confirm if the failure of the combined (debian +
phpgroupware-0.9.14RCx + ck-ledger) system is due
to the DB version.
I have also tried the other approach of upgrading
the Postgres version of my RedFlag Linux machine,
ending with total failure.
Phpgroupware 14RC3 is definitely not stable yet. That
actually highlights a weakness with the current phpgroupware
development process. There are too many modules to
synchronize when upgrading to a new release. This couples
with different underlying distros incorporating different php,
db, ldap,etc.. versions, could result in a lot of RCs being issued
before
a new release is relatively bug-free. I had a taste of this
problem when trying to make ck-ledger runable with both
Postgres and Mysql. I had to cut back on a lot of Postgres (7.x.x)
sql features that were not supported by Mysql (3.23.x). A better
approach is perhaps to go back to the previous situation of
releasing the core modules under a "phpgroupware-proper" project.
The other modules will be developed as plug-ins or sub-projects
subject to separate release streams with specification indicating
which "phpgroupware-proper" version being the prerequisite.
For the moment, I'll try to keep any new release of ck-ledger,
phpgroupware-0.9.12 compatible, pending the formal release
of phpgroupware-0.9.14. If I got a bit of time, I'll try to
setup a debian machine and check out the debian situtation.
Best Regards,
CK
geoff wrote:
Hi
CK, Had some time to
fiddle with ck-ledger over the lastday
or so: Mysql version
only works with Mysql-3.23 +mainly
Create table Select statement in reportsis
the problem(Debian is still only with Mysql-3.22) I
believe that phpgroupware 14RC3 is unstable the sessionskept
kicking me off either that ,or again Debian being back on PHP4-0.3pl1is
the problem. I have gone back to phpgroupware-0.9.12 Debian
latest Postgres distro is still back at 6.5.3 which againmay
cause problems In essence
the average debian user is going to have some angstwith
the ck package. Regards Geoff
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