Re: [SMW-devel] SMW 0.4.3 bonus release is out! [Update2]

[Markus <ma...@ai...>]

Well, I am starting to do hourly releases ;-) I have quick-fixed another ti=
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bug that prevented the important "limit" parameter in <ask> from working.=20
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production sites -- you are the first who meets the bugs. ;-)=20

New release (0.4.3.2) is up.

Cheers,

Markus

On Tuesday 27 June 2006 16:05, Markus Kr=F6tzsch wrote:
> Update: version 0.4.3 contained (at least ;) one bug that prevented
> searches for non-numeric attribute values to work properly. The problem is
> fixed in a recent minor-minor-release 0.4.3.1 which can now be found at
> SourceForge.
>
> Have fun,
>
> Markus
>
> On Sunday 25 June 2006 22:45, Markus Kr=F6tzsch wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > after 48 hours of coding (*puh*), I have uploaded an intermediate relea=
se
> > of SMW on SourceForge. If you want to upgrade, you need to recreate your
> > SMW_LocalSettings.php, since some variables have changed there.
> >
> > The release addresses a number of issues and limitations with the curre=
nt
> > Inline Query mechanism, in particular:
> >
> > * Inline queries are much more efficient.
> > ** Typical queries can be executed in linear space (assuming that the DB
> > is not dump and eliminates duplicate rows eagerly).
> > ** Subqueries now have a much better behaviour and should not strongly
> > increase the required resources.
> > ** If the query performance still does not scale up to your use case,
> > there are added variables you can set to further restrict them in a
> > meaningful way.
> >
> > * Inline queries are more powerful. There are quite some new features f=
or
> > output formatting and searching:
> > ** If you want to search for all articles that have *some* annotation f=
or
> > a given property, use the syntax [[relation::+]] or [[attribute:=3D+]].=
 **
> > If you say [[relationname::*]] or [[attributename:=3D*]], all values of
> > these annotations are printed, no matter how many there are.
> > ** You can also print the immediate categories given to the selected
> > articles by [[Category:*]].
> > ** You can restrict the search to a certain namespace. E.g.
> > [[Relation:+]] searches only in the Relation namespace. The main
> > namespace is usually [[:+]]. For searching for categories, use
> > [[:Category:+]]. This feature can be combined with disjunctions, e.g
> > [[Help:+||:+]] for searching in Help and Main.
> > ** You can now use all output formats with all kinds of results, i.e. n=
ot
> > only 'table' can be used to print more than one "column". E.g. a query
> > could return a list of names of some persons with their assigned email
> > addresses printed in parentheses.
> > ** If you don't want the names of the relations, attributes, etc. to be
> > printed (e.g. if you do not have a table output and only one non-subject
> > value), you can set the parameter <ask headers=3D"hide">. As before, you
> > can also select the label for some output by writing [[relation::*|your
> > label]] etc.
> > ** You can give a label to the first entry of each result (the subject)
> > by setting the parameter <ask mainlabel=3D"Your label goes here.">. By
> > this, you can also force the subject to be shown in cases where it is
> > normally hidden (for queries where one or more subjects where specified
> > explicitly by using [[Subject_article_name]]).
> >
> > * The code for inline queries now is more readable and can easier be
> > extended in the future. There also have been quite some internal cleanu=
ps
> > in the datatype parsing code, but these should not have major effects on
> > usage. However, you can now quite savely switch on the reporting of
> > Notices in PHP.
> >
> > * There are some bugs less now. (And maybe some more in other places ;-)
> >
> >
> > Of course, the release has not been tested extensively, so there might =
be
> > some bugs lurking here and there. But in general inline queries 0.4.3 a=
re
> > a large improvement over inline queries 0.4.1. The official documentati=
on
> > for the new queries still has to be done.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Markus

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Markus Kr=F6tzsch
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