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Thursday, September 2, 2004

Tags: insanity, patch, perl, php

So being the software masochist I am, I decided to upgrade from Movable Type 3.0D to 3.1. And because I'm insane, I tried the Build Only Archive Templates Dynamically, however, that made it decide not to actually use my templates; so, I then chose Set Each Template's Build Options Separately, and miraculously it used my templates again. Their choice of PHP for the dynamic stuff is quite aggravating, especially when they could've just used Perl, so I had to make some more patches:

• php-lib-function.MTCommentAuthorLink.php.patch
• php-lib-function.MTEntryAuthorLink.php.patch

And, I still needed the first patch mentioned in MT Patches.