Updated readme for imminent release 0.1a3
authorDan
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:59:15 -0400
changeset 35 8040903d25de
parent 34 3b817b961984
child 36 70ef461bbffa
Updated readme for imminent release 0.1a3
README
--- a/README	Fri Aug 15 23:49:00 2008 -0400
+++ b/README	Fri Aug 15 23:59:15 2008 -0400
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@
    Drewsen, André Kelpe, and Peter C. Ndikuwera. However unlike WebControl
    Greyhound is written entirely in PHP, making it a bit more portable. This
    script doesn't require an external web server to run, it has a relatively
-   basic built-in (single-threaded) server.</p>
+   basic built-in (but multi-threaded) server.</p>
 <p>The script needs a browser with XmlHttpRequest (AJAX) support to work. It's
-   been tested on Firefox 3.0 beta 4 and Safari.</p>
+   been tested on Firefox 3.0.1, Safari, and Opera 9.5.</p>
 <p>It uses Smarty templates so you should be able to customize the HTML to
    your needs. The template file is /themes/funkymonkey/playlist.tpl. There's
    also a theme called iphone which is optimized for use on Apple's touch
@@ -39,13 +39,11 @@
       the script manager, you won't be able to start Greyhound again for about
       60 seconds. I checked everything and socket_shutdown() and socket_close()
       are being called properly, so I don't know why it's failing.</li>
-  <li>The playlist isn't reloaded properly. This is because each of the child
-      threads have the playlist cached in memory, and I haven't figured out a
-      way to make them all reread the playlist file. Eventually I'll have code
-      in there that keeps track of the children and sends a SIGHUP to each of
-      them and have that fire an event that reparses the playlist file. The
-      only real way to fix this for now is to disable multi-threaded mode by
-      setting $allow_fork to false at the top of greyhound.php.</li>
+  <li>As of version 0.1 alpha 3, the playlist should be updated properly. If
+      you change your playlist but don't see the changes show up in Greyhound
+      after about 1-2 minutes, please report it as a bug. Please see
+      <a href="http://forum.enanocms.org/post/14/#p14">this forum post</a>
+      for more information.</li>
 </ul>
 
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