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From: Alexander E G. <lx...@po...> - 2006-04-17 15:45:26
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Hej Vicaya watchers, I've just released a new alpha Vicaya version 0.1.4. It is feature complete, but with many bugs, and lacks proper testing and polish. Screenshots: http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=3D113008&ssid=3D319= 93 This release has been tuned to ATI from content and indices, to splash screen, icons, etc. As I separate components, I will be trying to appeal to a larger audience, so now might be a good time to get one's feet wet. http://sf.net/projects/vicaya http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/vicaya/vicaya-0.1.4-no-java.zip?download John, perhaps you could think about rounding up the testing brute squad. I do not think we are ready for full user testing, but a few uber-geeks could be useful. The documentation suffers from sever ugliness. I was trying for a somber and simple motif, but I think I've achieved morbid. http://vicaya.sf.net Michael, are you still game for taking this on? I expect the web site to be useful to developers and content creators rather than end users. Perhaps you can take note of the project sites Vicaya is based on: http://tomcat.apache.org/ http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/ http://browserlaunch2.sourceforge.net/ https://jdic.dev.java.net/ A word about version numbers. I am using a convention similar to the Linux kernel development, where versions are of three (perhaps four) places: MAJOR.MINOR.BUGFIX. Odd number MINOR numbers are unstable development releases while even MINOR numbers represent stable user releases. As you can see, Vicaya has not yet made a stable release. Cheers, Alex -- CCC7 D19D D107 F079 2F3D BF97 8443 DB5A 6DB8 9CE1 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Vicaya 0.1.4 alpha Release 2006-04-17 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The most notable features of this release include a splash screen, system tray, browser launcher, and simplified content creation. Behind the scenes is a faster more reliable indexer and component separation. I've run into some difficulties with the Java Runtime on CD, and have not included the JRE's with this release, but I expect to straighten out these issues soon enough. I know of no critical bugs (though I have pages of known issues), and encourage all to test Vicaya out. I have only tested this release on XP/SP2 and Ubuntu 5.10 Linux. The system tray may gracefully fail on a Mac and some Unix environments. There are four start scripts. Those ending in .bat are for Dos/Windows and those ending in .sh are for Unix variants (including Mac OS X). start.sh/bat is more mature than splash.sh/bat, though the later has the newest features. The CDROM image (iso) is an exact copy of a CD generated from the regular zip file. |