9 Mar
2011
9 Mar
'11
10:41 a.m.
In article <4D77C55F.5040008 at bitsavers.org>,
Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> writes:
No, this was with Mimsy, the system CHM uses. I just pointed this out to note that
not all
>> We ran into a problem where image paths were
hardcoded with windows pathna
mes,
which causes the OSX version of the client to fail.
Was this encountered while using CollectiveAccess?
clients deal with pathnames the same way and it might
be a problem if someone
would use
this in a heterogeneous environment.
OK, I'll keep an eye out for this with CA. I'm going to start
experimenting with CollectiveAccess. When I was at the Living
Computer Museum, Rich Alderson mentioned a program called PastPerfect.
I looked at it and the vendor lock-in feel to it put me off. Plus it
costs money and only ran on Windows. CA is a web application, so I
can leverage data backup plans from a web hosting service instead of
having to maintain my own backups. Also, being an open source PHP
application I can host it on classiccmp.org for minimal expense. With
an open source PHP application I have the option of contributing
extnesions that address problems in the vintage computing domain and
share them with others.
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