[Community-desktop] desktop-server-3.0.0-final-beta-6075-py24questions

[Alan Runyan]

> I have a 2.05 and a 2.13 site using the previous version of 
> Enfold Desktop.

Great!
 
> I uninstalled the previous version of Enfold Desktop as per 
> instructions.
> 
> 1) It works fine. But my Enfold Desktop folder is now full of 
> previous version connections which cannot be either used or 
> deleted. Is there a work around to see only connections which 
> work with the new version or to delete old connections?

Yikes!  Try to delete it then try to goto 'Help' and Send error report
to Enfold. This will send us your debugging log and one of our guys can
look into it. I believe there is a .ini file that has all the
information in there; and they could be forcibly removed with editor.
 
> 2) Is there a way to use both versions at the Desktop? I'm 
> stuck with these older versions of Plone for awhile 
> (resources for migration are deeply strained, especially in 
> light of other third party products). 
> Does Build 6075 work with 2.05 or 2.13? Does the previous 
> build work with 2.5?

They should work.  Just use the Python 2.3.x version of the server
components.

> 3) Also, in the previous version, I opened a WebDAV server 
> and port and had to configure that on the desktop in the 
> product install. Then new build doesn't seem to ask for that? 
> I assume it is using the HTTP server by default. Is this 
> correct? Knowing this is important for how I set up Apache.

We no longer need the WebDAV support.  You can use the normal HTTP port
in Zope.

> 4) Is it still required that the Zope instance owner user 
> perform the Enfold Desktop Add/Remove Product? I did this not 
> knowing, although it is not documented in the new 
> instructions. Having it not documented made me suspect it was 
> no longer required. That would be a good thing for a variety 
> of reasons.

Not that I know of.  I believe you only need to have Management access
to provide the 'install' like any other product (we arent doing anything
funny)

> 5) Finally, as a non-profit educational research institution, 
> am I under the new pricing structure? A good part of my 
> strategy, developed pre-license change, was to put desktop 
> clients in the hands of my institutional content 
> contributors. We've lost most (well, OK, in a year, all) of 
> our funding, so I need to revise my strategy if licensing is 
> per seat at a low threshold. I don't know what to revise it 
> to, given to how the FOSS nature of Plone was key to Plone's 
> adoption in my project and bulk upload through Winders is key 
> to acceptance of Plone by my content contributors. So I'd 
> like to know my options a little clearer. Feel free to 
> contact me offlist about this item.

Will contact you offline.  But for us to continue to support the
software we had to change the licensing model.

> Please let me know also, should I need to open a collector 
> issue on any of these items.

The only issue I think you will need to open a collector issue on
(possibly) is not being able to remove the sessions.

Cheers
Alan