Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:42:09 +0200 (EET)
From: Henri Bergius <Henri.Bergius@iki.fi>
Subject: MWS for 15th of December, 1999 (#25)
To: midgard@greywolves.org, lwn@lwn.net, marty@linuxtoday.com,

Greetings!

While I've been busy Y2K-fixing some of
our old Unix servers, the Midgard project
has still been advancing in a very nice 
pace. The amount of interesting threads
on the mailing list has been increasing,
as has the number of people contributing
to Midgard one way or another.

The last two weeks have been a bit slow
on news as people have been busy working
on Midgard 2 and other related projects.
However, there are still some things to
mention here.

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Current versions:
	Stable: 1.2.5 (Mad King)
	Devel.: 1.3 

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Requirements for Midgard 2 release

There has been some discussion on what
features will need to be included in 
the first actual Midgard 2 release.

Mostly this will include the major
features we've talked about - ODBC
support, packaging and better access
control. However, it is also viewed
as very important to have at least
some actual documentation available
at that point.

This discussion is now of some 
importance as the Midgard 2 core
will be hitting alpha soon. More
information on how we view the 
features in Midgard 2 can be found
from the mailing list archives:

  -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=94422810915707&w=2

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Midgard and Oracle

While everybody is waiting eagerly
for the Midgard 2 release, it seems
that we might still see Oracle 
support in the Midgard 1.x architecture.

Jean-Pierre Arneodo from Initiative
Internet has announced that they have
a team working on this and plan to 
release the new interface under GPL.

If you are interested in the project,
please contact Jean-Pierre directly.

  -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=94423430121028&w=2

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Russian Midgard uploaded

Alexander Bokovoy's Russian Midgard
package has been uploaded to the
download area of Midgard's site. It
is also now an official part of the
Midgard releases.

The package also includes some fixes
to the Admin site that have to do
with using Admin site on a prefixed
Midgard host (ie. a host that resides
in a subdirectory of another site).

Future developments of Russian Midgard
and other things related to i18n will
now take place in Midgard's CVS 
repository.

  -> http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/?l=midgard&m=94504544312372&w=2

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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

 -Linux Today
   -> http://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

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/Bergie

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