[Vicaya-user] Vicaya Release 0.1.4

[Alexander E G. <lx...@po...>]

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=
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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
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Vicaya 0.1.4 alpha
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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.