Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 00:01:07 +0200 (EET)
From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi>
Greetings!
Another week has passed, with lots of interesting things going
on in the Midgard world. Especially, the new Demo server is a very
nice addition to the project. Now it is much easier for new users
to get into Midgard development.
Current versions:
Stable: 1.2.5 (Mad King)
Devel.: 1.3
Midgard 2 status update
Jukka Zitting sent a brief update on the development status for
Midgard’s next major version.
The features currently being worked on include database
independence, better access control, modifiable record types, and
inbuilt replication and packaging mechanisms.
It is expected that we can release the first beta for Midgard 2
in late December.
The status update can be found from Midgard’s mailing list
archives:
->
http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=94344635030602&w=2
Midgard Demo Site available
There is now a Midgard demo server running in Sweden. This new
service enables people interested in Midgard to try it out safely
without having to install it beforehand.
The service is freely available, and anyone interested trying it
out can use the Administrator account for creating test sites to
the server. The database on the server is cleaned up every 12 hours
to ensure better accessibility of the service.
-> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1367.html
The Midgard Development Meeting
This is just a quick reminder that the Midgard development
meeting will be held tomorrow over IRC. Everyone interested in
working on the Midgard code should try to get there.
The meeting begins on Thursday at 16 GMT and will probably be
held on irc.openprojects.net #midgard. Any changes to this plan
will be announced on the Midgard mailing list.
Jukka Zitting will post the agenda for the meeting later on.
Red Hat i386 binaries for Midgard 1.2.5
Emile is now back from vacation, and has made a RPM version of
the latest stable Midgard release available.
The binary RPMs are available as both separate packages and in
combination with Apache and mod_ssl. The Source RPMs and the spec
files are also available.
There has been lots of discussion about getting Midgard packaged
to also other platforms, and it would be nice to see some progress
in that field. Any volunteers for working on it?
-> http://www.midgard-project.org/download/binaries/
Account creation problems
There was a user permissions bug in the Midgard 1.2.5 release.
This made Midgard server not recognize members of the Administrator
group as valid users for creating new user accounts. User account
creation within the normal group ownership system was not
affected.
Emile has posted a patch for fixing this, and the needed changes
will also be made to the 1.2.5 packages on Midgard’s site later
on.
Grab the patch for midgard-php-1.2.5 from:
->
http://www.iris-advies.com/php/Emile.Heyns/midgard-php-1.2.5.patch
About Midgard
Midgard is a freely-available Web application development and
publishing platform based on the popular PHP scripting language. It
is an Open Source development project, giving you the freedom to
create your solutions in an open environment. Midgard is the tool
for creating, modifying and maintaining dynamic database-enabled
web services.
-> http://www.midgard-project.org
About MWS
The Midgard Weekly Summary is a newsletter for the Midgard user
and developer community.
The MWS is currently being distributed in following mediums:
-The Midgard Project’s Web site
-> http://www.midgard-project.org
-Linux Weekly News
-> http://www.lwn.net
-Linux Today
-> https://www.linuxtoday.com
-Linux Developer’s Network
-> http://linuxdev.net
-Open Source Writers Group
-> http://www.oswg.org
-Midgard mailing list
If you would like to release it elsewhere, please contact Henri
Bergius
(Henri.Bergius@iki.fi).
Previous issues of Midgard Weekly Summary can be found archived
at the Midgard web site. ->
http://www.midgard-project.org/topic/169.html
/Bergie
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