ZZ/OSS Installer Client 1.1.0dev1 Released

ZZ/OSS is happy to announce that the ZZ/OSS Installer Client (ZIC) 1.0.1 has been released.

ZIC is a PHP-based installation wizard and development tool for professional release management of modular PHP applications.

### Release Notes ###

This is a development release with new features. You can use this version to make your own PHP software installable with ZIC. The schema of the XML files describing your application is solid.

This new tutorial on making phpMyAdmin installable with ZIC is a good start:
http://www.zzoss.com/phpwiki/index.php/ZzossInstallerTutorialPhpMyAdminPart1

Download ZIC 1.1.0dev1 at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=95735&package_id=102185

Please report bugs to the bug tracker, mailinglist, or IRC.

More information is available at the installer homepage
http://www.zzoss.com/projects/installer/

### Features ###

- Provides a Web GUI aka installation wizard look and feel.
- Allows definition of packages, applications, and distributions in XML.
- Automatic resolution of package dependencies.
- Ships with tools for easier development of applications and packages.
- Plugin framework for build routines (e.g. to set up or update a database from SQL dumps).
- Customization with CSS of layout for in-house products.
- Supports full, minimal or custom installation profiles.
- Can be used as installation or setup wizard.
- Installer can upgrade itself.
- Allows multiple, non-conflicting installations in single or shared hosts environments

### Changelog ###

(excerpt of most important changes)

- works on Windows and Linux
- integrated plugins and packages manager for installed applications
- development applications can now also be installed
- default install path of development applications has '-dev' added to app name
- new default theme 'kde' which is more neutral
- option to automatically remove setup wizard after installation
- handle different magic quotes settings
- progress bar shows download process
- single packages or plugins can be added
- works with E_ALL error reporting
- fileroles: default behaviour of installer without having any filerole plugins installed is
that the file gets copied to the location specified in filelist/file of package.xml
- configurable quick installation of development applications allows for faster development
- detect circular dependencies of packages needing each other
- process filelists with nested <dir> elements in package.xml