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Tcl API
Tcl API
apm-install-procs.tcl (Supports installation of packages)
20-apm-load-procs.tcl (Bootstraps APM for server startup)
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For a simple illustration of the difference between ACS without APM (pre-3.3) and ACS with APM (3.3 and beyond), consider a hypothetical ACS installation that uses only two of the thirty-odd modules available circa ACS -3.2 (say, bboard and e-commerce):
APM itself is part of a package, the OpenACS Kernel, an OpenACS +3.2 (say, bboard and e-commerce):
APM itself is part of a package, the OpenACS Kernel, an OpenACS service that is the only mandatory component of an OpenACS installation.
The OpenACS is a platform for web-based application software, and any software platform has the potential to develop problems like those described above. Fortunately, there are many precedents for systematic solutions, @@ -542,4 +542,4 @@ all of this functionality in one interface and it can be confusing from a usability perspective.
System creator: Bryan Quinn, Jon Salz, Michael Yoon, Lars Pind, Todd Nightingale.
System owner: Bryan Quinn
Documentation author: Bryan Quinn, building from earlier versions by Jon -Salz, Michael Yoon, and Lars Pind.