Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 18:18:39 +0300 From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi> To: Midgard mailing list <midgard@greywolves.org>, lwn@lwn.net Subject: MWS for 21st of July, 1999 (#8) Greetings! This has been a very busy week in the world of Midgard, with two new releases and lots of discussion about future developments of Midgard. While it was already announced last week, I think this is still worth reminding. There will be an IRC conference held on irc.openprojects.net channel #midgard, and everybody interested in what directions Midgard will take in the future should participate. We will also try to help new people interested in Midgard development to get their work started on the code. The plan is to start at 15:00 GMT. Be there! And now to the headlines: ============================ ============================ Midgard 1.1.1 was released We released Midgard 1.1.1, the second version of the 'Iron River' series on July 19th. The release contained bug fixes for the troublesome 1.1 release as well as a new improved version of the Admin site. All users of 1.1 are urged to upgrade. Go read the release announcement. -> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1085.html ---------------------------- ODBC support for Midgard Shortly after the release of Midgard 1.1 the development team was approached by Kingsley Idehen from OpenLink Software. OpenLink has released its iODBC library to the public under GPL, and they proposed that Midgard could start supporting it instead of having to support each database separately. This seems to be a very likely direction for Midgard to move, and we have now assigned the iODBC support to the Roadmap for Midgard 1.2 After this the licensing problems with MySQL will vanish as users can choose their database from a longer list of possible alternatives ranging from big-name databases like Oracle and Sybase to free databases like MySQL and Postgres, or even an NNTP server! -> http://www.iodbc.org ---------------------------- RPM packages Midgard user Emile Heyns has volunteered to package Midgard for the Red Hat platform. Packages for Red Hat 5.2 should be available by next weeks, with packages for RH 6.0 following in August. -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=93245469204071&w=2 ---------------------------- Mailing list archives Thanks to Progressive Computing Concepts, Inc.'s MARC system, there is now a searchable archive of the Midgard mailing list available online. The MARC system also hosts an impressive amount of other Free Software and Web-related archives,' and states it plans to function as the "DejaNews for mailing lists." Thanks to Hank Leininger for putting the archives up! -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/ ============================ ============================ 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 -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 -- -- Henri Bergius -- +358 40 525 1334 -- Henri.Bergius@iki.fi -- http://www.iki.fi/Henri.Bergius