diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index 25bcf12..32c858a 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ -Updated 27 October 2022 +Updated 3 February 2023 Troggle is an application for caving expedition data management, originally created for use on Cambridge University Caving Club (CUCC)expeditions and licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Troggle has been forked into two projects. The original one is maintained by Aaron Curtis -and was used for Erebus caves. The CUCC variant uses files as the definitive data, -not the database and lives at http://expo.survex.com/repositories/troggle/.git/ +and was used for Erebus caves in Antarctica. +The CUCC variant uses files as the definitive data, not the database, and lives at http://expo.survex.com/repositories/troggle/.git/ For the server setup, see /_deploy/debian/wookey-exposerver-recipe.txt and see http://expo.survex.com/handbook/troggle/serverconfig.html @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Follow the instructions contained in the file to fill out your settings. Python3, Django, and Database setup ----------------------------------- We are now using Django 3.2 and will move to 4.2 in 2024 -We are installing with python3.10 or 3.11 (the server is running 3.9) +We are installing with python 3.11 (the server is running 3.9) Install Django using pip, not with apt, on your test system in a venv. Conventionally on our main master expo server we install everything that we can as debian packages, not using pip. @@ -147,11 +147,13 @@ GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON troggle.* TO 'expo'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'somepassw The GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES bit requires you to logon in to MariaDB as root. sudo doesn't cut it. these permissions are set in a different 'info' database which usually is untouched even if database troggle gets creamed. +The 'somepassword' is specified int he localsettings.py file. + PERMISSIONS https://linuxize.com/post/usermod-command-in-linux/ -THIS MAY BE OUT OF DATE - in 2022 we are running Apache as user 'expo' not 'www-data' +THIS MAY BE OUT OF DATE - from 2022 we are running Apache as user 'expo' not 'www-data' so that the online editing system for SVX files works. The same goes for /expoweb/ files, so that "edit this page" works and the New Cave @@ -193,6 +195,13 @@ olly: ExecStart=/usr/sbin/apachectl start olly: ExecStop=/usr/sbin/apachectl stop olly: ExecReload=/usr/sbin/apachectl graceful +Additions +--------- +The python code has been manually cleaned using the 'black' and 'ruff' lint tools, +and the 'deptry' dependency checker. This needs doing every year or so. +See dependencies-check-deptry.txt + +See troggle/pyproject.toml for configurations Experimental additions ----------------------