[Ids-devel] IDS 0.6b1 now available

[John M. <mo...@mu...>]

Hello.

IDS 0.6b1 is now available:

http://arwen.hn.org/~john/

Please let me know if you find any bugs. I'm aiming for a public release in
the next week.

I'm pleased to report that IDS works under Mac OS X with no modifications.

New in this pre-release:
- Oren's patch to fix the album icon function

- An upgrader script to convert from IDS' old file structure to the new
layout in 0.6 (thanks, Clayton). This script still needs more of a user
interface, but it worked well enough to convert my primary IDS site to
0.6b1: http://toasty.mcs.muohio.edu/~moosejc/photoalbum/

- The remove image, rename image, and rename album functions in the admin
CGI now work. They also will rename or delete the appropriate files in the
album-data and image-cache directories.

- The pages produced by IDS are HTML 4.01 compliant according to
http://validator.w3.org/

- Bug-fixes:
* the commentviewer script now displays multi-line comments correctly
* albums with ampersands in their names caused odd behavior with the album
icon functions
* I had to disable "use strict refs" in the Image::Info portion of
"generateImage" (index.cgi). Otherwise, some images would produce an error:
"Can't use string ("x") as an ARRAY ref while 'strict refs'." I'd appreciate
it if someone smarter than me could fix the code such that I didn't have to
do that.

Thanks,
John