About To Install...Which Version Should I Choose
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fiveupfront
Joined: 2005-08-25
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Posted: Thu, 2005-08-25 13:05
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I have trialled the latest stable release of version 1 and it is clearly fantastic - I am beyond impressed as is the person I am doing it for. Now I am about to head to the real thing on the real site and wondered if I am better to install the latest release candidate of version 2 or the most recent version 1. It will take some weeks for me to get all my data in place so will no doubt have to update before it all "goes live"...anyone care to offer an opinion ? I don't want to slog setting up a version 1 only for version 2 to become the norm as I finish but nor do I want a version that can not be patched when any "bugs" are located. Okay I'll stop now...I think I just said the same thing four times. |
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G2 ;)
Depends on what you're looking for if you really have to have voting/rating, then G1 as G2 doesn't yet have this. The commenting is also very crude in G2 compared to G1 at the moment.
However, G2 is modular, scalable and if you don't have to have those feature I'd go with G2. Just be sure your host meets at least the minimum system requirements.
If you search the forums there are several other posts similar to yours.
These guys also did a pretty good side-by-side feature comparision:
http://www.gallery-addons.com/content/view/64/79/lang,en_US/
You can also always install them side by side and try them out ;) It doesn't take much time to install them at all.
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G2 is very funky (although the FFMPEG instructions leave me bewildered).
I can't really see ANY commenting functions on G2. Is this something that is being left to the last minute or is it not going to be supported. I will have to go back to my friend because I think that was a big plus for her with the other one.
I hope comments will get imported from a G1 to G2 upgrade :S
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Commenting is in G2, it's a module just like most everything else. What package did you install? You can download additional modules, including comments from the codex download page for G2
http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:Download
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First, thanks for replying - it is only with the support of kind people like yourself that projects such as this work.
I installed via CVS so have all such modules installed and have the User commenting activated. Does it only work for registered users ? No anonymous commenting ?
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guest users can comment, just give them the permission in edit permission.
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I would NEVER have worked that out...I was looking for some sort of global setting that already existed.
I now see how that works and have a big smile because I am heading more and more in the direction I need to...which will make my friend a very happy bunny.
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So...if people are feeling kind...the ffmpeg module wants me to specify a path but I don't know what to. It keeps saying it is looking for a binary but the folders don't contain a file called ffmpeg. Am I supposed to download a compiled binary AS WELL as the stuff that came with my CVS files or what ?
Everything else activated itself so easily I feel I am probably being roughly as silly as above but I defer to the advice of my kind gurus.
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right, we don't include the ffmpeg binary.
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ffmpeg is just like netpbm, zip, unzip, imagemagick or any of the other external programs gallery (1 and 2) can use. since there are so many platforms gallery can run on (windows, linux, freebsd, solaris, osx, etc...) it would be pretty much impossible to actually include IN the release.
I think there *are* plans to build some gallery binary packs though, that would contain the binary for that platform... but this isn't as easy to do as it sounds.
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I have spent the last day or so reading stuff and have managed to learn how to use SSH, CVS and how to compile stuff from source...and I now have had several legit binaries in play.
Still no thumbnails. I think the problem is that I am guessing what commands to use to compile it as the documentation for ffmpeg does not help.
I think the bits I am unsure I have got right are the config stage (I have learned how to change the install path with --prefix) and then how that makes the "make install" stage work.
I am part enjoying all this because let's face it this is old-school computing but I am frustrated because there are few things you can't google these days but installing ffmpeg is one of them !!!!