David Scotson

Do you mean "RIGHT OUTER JOIN and FULL OUTER JOIN", which they list as stuff they don't support?

http://www.sqlite.org/omitted.html

I thought they could both be emulated with other SQL? (Which isn't ideal, but it seems like Moodle already has the infrastructure to do that kind of DB specific SQL munging).

What's the current status of SQLite support?

There seems to have been a fair bit of work done on it in the past and it seems like it might be useful for Desktop Moodle, particularly now that PHP includes SQLite and a server out of the box.

Was there some impassible roadblock reached which caused it to never get out of "experimental status" and led to it being abandoned, or did people just stop keeping it up to date as the code moved on?

Is anyone else interested in getting it working again?

Is anyone running the selenium tests headless? That is, on a server box. I'm using Xvfb and the FirefoxDriver and it doesn't seem to be finding the display I set up. I get the feeling that I'm doing something silly and it's close to working but I thought maybe someone else might have done this before?

regards,

dave

Mostly when I automate things, it's not because it's particularly difficult for me, but more because if I don't do it for a while then I forget what I need to do and might miss a step out. So it's more like documentation of what needs to be done. The fact that it then happens quickly and with less chance that I've made some silly typo or omission is just a bonus.

And if it's shared with others then this role as documentation is even more valuable. There's plenty of people who wouldn't know where to start with recursive find and replace on the command line, or even in Notepad+, and would probably get great utility out of you sharing your command lines as a repeatable script.

I'm fairly sure that if you get the theme name wrong in your renderers classnames then it will silently fail. By which I mean that you'll get the output of the core renderer rather than your theme's implementation.

I know this because I've put a typo in the classname and stared at the file for a long time before figuring out why my changes weren't having any effect. So to get a properly functioning theme you do need to do that renaming of classes as well.

I've started writing a shell script to do this automatically because it's very boring and easy to make mistakes, maybe Moodle could include a command line PHP script that does this for you?