[Community-desktop] desktop-server-3.0.0-final-beta-6075-py24 questions

[Sidnei da Silva]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 03:49:01PM -0400, Chris Calloway wrote:
| I have a 2.05 and a 2.13 site using the previous version of Enfold Desktop.
| 
| I'm building a new 2.5 site and am trying out build 6075.
| 
| 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?

The information about connections is stored on a .ini file. The
location escapes me right now. I believe it's in Documents and
Settings\user\<something>\Application Data\Enfold.

| 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?

You mean the tarball or the desktop desktop? There's documentation
about the compatibility issues on the website.

| 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.

That's right. It works over plain HTTP by doing user-agent sniffing now.

| 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.

It's recommended yes. It *might* work if you don't do it, by luck.

| 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.

I will leave that for Alan to answer.

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