[Phpwebsite-developers] phpWebSite 1.0.0 RC2 coming next week

[Matthew M. <ma...@tu...>]

Hello all,

I plan on pushing out the second release candidate at the beginning of
next week. It will contain the Photoalbum and Form Generator modules. I
also have done some work on the conversion scripts. They will be
included as well. I will try to go over some documentation as well.

For those of you who installed RC1, you can try the Boost updater. I
have created packages of all the modules and placed them here:

http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/downloads/modules/

(Photo Album and Form Generator are there for downloading if you want to
try them)

To see how Boost works with updates, you will need to:
1) Download the updated core from
http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/downloads/modules/core/core_1_0_0.tgz
untar it in your installation directory.

2) Run Boost. On the core module tab, click 'Check' next to Boost. You
should get a notice that an upgrade is available. Download it into your
installation's mod directory and untar it. Now update it inside Boost.

3) Repeat process 2 for each module you want to update. Here is a list
of the modules that have updates:

comments
filecabinet
layout
miniadmin
related
users
profiler
rss

Untar each in the mod/ directory and update each in Boost.

You should also get the updated javascript and theme packages:
http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/downloads/javascript/javascript_1_0_0.tgz
http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/downloads/themes/default/default_1_0_0.tgz

Of course all of these will be included in RC2. 

Hopefully, the new Boost process will help keep sites up-to-date.
Allowing just a Core update will assist with any security patches (of
which we hope are infrequent). It will also allow module dependencies on
the core.

Have a good weekend.
Matt


-- 
Matthew McNaney
Electronic Student Services
Appalachian State University
http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu