As we are developing and testing the Wikiation Installer, we are recreating relevant configurations. Metavid is the open video archive of the US Congress and the Metavid software will be the basis of video support for MediaWiki. People are interested in learning about these software developments and being able to build such environment is fun.The metavid profile brought several things to me that were new. There are programs external to MediaWiki, programs that are not part of the LAMP stack that are prerequistites. We do not want to install such programs from within the installer but we do want to be able to test for such prerequistites. At this stage, we do not test for this, we leave this on our "wish list".
I had to install a SQL script in order to install metavid tables in the MediaWiki database. This was beyond me. Kim helped me out and now I have an example that I can copy. Now that the files install, I also needed a way to know that the files had installed. Michael Dale, the developer of Metavid suggested to use phpmyadmin. This was an attractive suggestion but, it does add to the clutter in what should be a clean environment.
What to do.. With hindsight the answer was obvious; one of the tests checks if new tables have been added to the database. So eating our own dogfood was in order. The isolation check was revived and indeed tables proved to have been added for Metavid.
I may have done a good job. I do not know as I do not how to test the functionality of this metavid environment.
Thanks,
GerardM
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