[ome-devel] configuration limitation

[kristian kvilekval]

I have been able to install 2.4 with the change suggested by
josiah.  Hurrah!


FYI:

I am currently trying to add my changes into the 2.4 release 
and have hit a limitation in the table "configuration".

In order to add a new importer to the system, I  needed
to add a line to src/perl2/OME/Install/CoreDatabaseTablesTask.pm
that is the name of the new importer:  in my case
    OME::ImportEngine::FischerExcelFormat

However, installation will fail because the "value" column 
of the configuration table is now larger than the 
maximum (256  characters).

I changed the "value" column to varchar(2048) in 
src/perl2/OME/Configuration/Variable.pm,
but this seemed adhoc at best..


I thought this should be reported as it may bite someone else soon.



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