Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 16:47:32 +0300
From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi>
To: Midgard mailing list <midgard@greywolves.org>, lwn@lwn.net
Subject: MWS for 28th of July, 1999 (#9)

Greetings!

This has been another week with a lot
happening in the Midgard world. Here is
some of the new stuff summarized:

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Development news

The first Midgard IRC meeting was held on
irc.openprojects.net channel #midgard in
July 22nd. The meeting went quite well, and
had 11 attendees. Topics discussed were the
coming ODBC support, access control and
WebDAV distributing authoring system.

Here are some development news, mostly
from the IRC meeting:

Emile Heyns has volunteered to work on adding
WebDAV support for Midgard, and has been
keeping the Midgard mailing list updated with
the progress of this project. The Midgard
Project hopes to include WebDAV support to
Midgard's list of features soon.

At the moment, most users of Midgard are
installing their servers straight from the
sources. This is a quite tedious process,
and one that ought to be streamlined.
Mark Constable is now working on a more
advanced installation scheme for Midgard's
source packages. In future, there are plans
to also include support for CVS installs
and fetching of latest packages from Midgard's
Web site.

After we stated in MWS #8 that Midgard 1.2
will be using the iODBC library for its
database connectivity we were informed about
unixODBC, another LGPLd database connectivity
library. After initial tests run by Jukka
Zitting it now seems that users will be
able to use both libraries with Midgard.

For people unable to run Midgard properly,
there is now also a short tutorial on
debugging Midgard by Jukka Zitting:

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1096.html

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Red Hat 5.2 / Intel RPMs available

Emile Heyns' RPM packages for Midgard 1.1.1
have now been declared stable, and are available
for Red Hat 5.2 users as both Intel binaries
and Source RPMs.

If there are any volunteers to build the
packages to other architectures, please
contact Henri Bergius.

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/download/binaries/

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Midgard for Debian 2.2?

Another binary-related news is that Debian
Developer Teemu Hukkanen (tjhukkan@iki.fi) has 
posted an Intent To Package on Midgard for the
Debian distribution. The packages should be 
available shortly after the first Midgard version
that uses ODBC is out, removing the licensing
problem with non-free MySQL.

This means that if everything goes as intended,
Midgard will be included in the Debian 2.2 
distribution.

  ->
http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=93309491706298&w=2

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Access Control in Midgard

Midgard developer Jukka Zitting has now posted
a summary of Midgard's access control options.
The text can be found from Midgard Web site's
Documentation area.

  -> http://www.midgard-project.org/article/1110.html

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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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