Kevin Lo <kevlo@kevlo.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 16:29 -0500, Predrag Punosevac wrote: 
> > Fred Crowson <fred.crowson@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 12/16/09, Fred Crowson <fred.crowson@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > > On 12/16/09, Predrag Punosevac <punosevac72@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >> Dear All,
> > > >>
> > > >> Is anybody using Learning Management System ATutor? The only LMS I
> > > >> noticed in ports is Moodle which is terribly outdate. I looked into
> > > >> installation of ATutor and it seems to me that it is just of bunch of
> > > >> xhtml, java-script, and php files which have to up unloaded in the right
> > > >> directory and correctly linked with MySQL. Obviously ATutor also
> > > >> requires PHP module for Apache.
> > > >>
> > > >> Does anybody see the value of porting ATutor?
> > > >>
> > > >> Best,
> > > >> Predrag
> > > >>
> > > >> P.S. Do people have any experience with Drupal as LMS? Does it have a
> > > >> grade-book?
> > > >
> > > > What's wrong with Moodle?  I know that the packaged version is behind the
> > > > current release but you can upgrade quite easily.
> > > >
> > > > And it runs nicely in the httpd chroot.
> > > >
> > > > Fred
> > >
> > > Sorry should have said have you asked on ports@ about bring moodle up
> > > to the latest version?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Fred
> > > PS I would added to my own to-do list but I'm already behind on
> > > getting netbeans uptodate....
> > 
> > No, I have not asked on ports about updating. I contacted privately the
> > port maintainer who promised that he will update port pending on his 
> > time. Fortunately, he happens to work on more interesting things than 
> > updating Moodle. Since he is busy and I need the port I fell it is up
> > to me to send the diff which people will test. 
>
> Okay, I have some free time. I just sent an updated diff for moodle 
> on ports@. Please test it, thanks! 
>
Kev,

Thank you so much. I will test in the next day or so. On another note I
have played for the past 10-12 hours with ATutor. The good news is that
actually your Moodle port can be used as template for ATutor. If you 
start with your Makefile for Moodle it would be enough just to replace
port name with ATutor-1.6.3, edit the web-site and remove PostgreSQL 
flavour since ATutor works only with MySQL. Here is the quick and 
dirty Makefile I hope I will have some time this weekend to clean the 
port and actually to send ATutor to ports. Obviously there would be no 
flavors in the final version and php-mysql module has to be add as run 
dependencies. The quick and dirty ATutor makefile is shown below. The 
real "difficulty" with ATutor is to fire up MySQL, PHP module in proper
order and create /var/www/tmp directory so that we can still use Apache
in the chroot. 

Best,
Predrag

penBSD: Makefile,v 1.10 2007/09/15 20:38:22 merdely Exp $

COMMENT=        learning management system

DISTNAME=       ATutor-1.6.3
PKGNAME=        ${DISTNAME}
CATEGORIES=     www education

HOMEPAGE=       http://www.atutor.ca/

MAINTAINER=     Kevin Lo <kevlo@openbsd.org>

# GPL
PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM=  Yes
PERMIT_PACKAGE_FTP=    Yes
PERMIT_DISTFILES_CDROM=Yes
PERMIT_DISTFILES_FTP=  Yes



MASTER_SITES=   http://sourceforge.net/projects/atutor/files/ATutor
EXTRACT_SUFX=   .tgz

EXTRACT_ONLY=   
NO_BUILD=       Yes
NO_REGRESS=     Yes
PKG_ARCH=       *

PREFIX=         /var/www
INSTDIR=        ${PREFIX}/atutor
SUBST_VARS=     INSTDIR

RUN_DEPENDS=    :php5-gd-*:www/php5/extensions,-gd \
                :php5-mbstring-*:www/php5/extensions,-mbstring

FLAVORS=        mysql 
FLAVOR?=

.if ${FLAVOR:L:Mmysql}
RUN_DEPENDS+=   :php5-mysql-*:www/php5/extensions,-mysql
.endif


do-install:
        @cd ${PREFIX} && tar zxf ${FULLDISTDIR}/${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX}
        @chown -R ${SHAREOWN}:${SHAREGRP} ${PREFIX}/*

.include <bsd.port.mk>







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> > Well guess what? I did little bit of research and asking around so
> > I prefer to spend my time on ATutor. That is just a personal preference.
> > 
> > The Moodle in present state is useless as it doesn't contain the 
> > grade-book module. The grade-book has been introduced in Moodle one or 
> > two releases after the Kev's port. Some of more interesting features 
> > of Moodle according to my source are closed source and needs to be 
> > purchased. I am all ears and I would love to be contradicted and 
> > provided with other testimonials. ATutor feels lot simpler than Moodle
> > but I might be very wrong. 
>
> > Most Kind Regards,
> > Predrag Punosevac
>
>         Kevin