Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 18:45:44 +0300
From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi>
To: midgard@greywolves.org, lwn@lwn.net
Subject: MWS for 14th of July, 1999 (#7)

Greetings!

Here is another issue of Midgard Weekly Summary,
gathered to provide you with information on the
ever-developing world of Midgard. This week has
been especially busy over the release of Midgard
1.1, and so there is much to tell.

We will also be trying a slightly different 
format to make the email version of MWS a bit 
more readable. If you have ideas on how to improve
the outlook, please contact me.

But now to the point:

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Midgard 1.1 "Iron River" is out!

The Midgard Project is happy to finally announce
the release of newest major version of Midgard,
the version 1.1 "Iron River".

The release contains all the stuff discussed
in both the previous issues of MWS and the
Midgard Roadmap. To summarize, new features
include:

 -Enhanced URI mapping (Midgardized directories
  on normal hosts!)

 -Working file attachment support for Articles

 -Includes PHP 3.0.11 (and can also be patched 
  on existing PHP installations)

 -Renamed functions to comply with standard
  PHP practises

Yes, you read the last two correctly. Midgard
now plays with PHP much more nicely, and can
actually be patched on top of existing PHP
installations (ask Jukka Zitting for more
instructions on this one). Now I hope we can 
finally start working with the PHP development
team to merge the PHP and Midgard-PHP code
trees ending the unnecessary code fork.

Now, go read the release announcement, and
then fetch Midgard 1.1 from our Web site!

(And for people wondering: The release was 
named as "Iron River" because Jukka took a
week-long vacation for building a medieval 
village named Rautajoki (Iron River) somewhere 
in Finnish countryside, halting Midgard 1.1
development for the time ;-)

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1058.html

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A combined Midgard/PHP manual?

There was a short thread at Open Source Writers 
Group's mailing list about the possibility of
creating a combined user's manual for Web
development with Midgard and PHP.

Currently the project is still at an idea stage,
and is looking for someone to start gathering
volunteers to work on it. If you are interested
on working on such a project, please head over 
to the OSWG mailing list.

  -> http://www.linuxchix.org/techwriters

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IRC conference on Midgard development

Midgard developer Jukka Zitting is calling
a conference for people interested in Midgard
development. The purpose of the conference
is to discuss the future of Midgard and help
new developers become familiar with the
code.

The conference will be held on IRC server
irc.openprojects.net, channel #midgard on
Thu 22nd July, 15.00 GMT

If there are changes to this schedule, they
will be announced in the Midgard mailing
list and the midgard-project.org Web site.

If the IRC conference proves to be popular, we 
will consider making it a regular happening.

For more information, please contact Jukka
Zitting (Jukka.Zitting@iki.fi)

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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

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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

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/Bergie
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