[Pmwiki-users] PmWiki 2.0.devel2 released
Ciaran
ciaranj
Fri Aug 27 10:11:42 CDT 2004
I've deployed an instance of dev-2 to my server, if anyone wants a
play around or a look at another skin style, don't think I've put any
passwords on it, if there are any, try 'secret' ;)
http://www.wombatinvasion.com/pmwiki2/pmwiki.php/
Do what you want, I'll wipe this with future releases anyway :)
- Ciaran
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:02:49 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud
<pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> Greetings, all--
>
> I'm now starting to release developers versions of PmWiki 2.0, so that
> others can experiment with them and help me bring them to full
> release status. Note that these are developers releases -- i.e., they're
> still a work in progress and some features have not been implemented
> or may not be fully functional yet. Development releases are being made
> available at http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki-devel, and via anonymous
> CVS on sourceforge.net (http://www.sf.net/projects/pmwiki). Until we start
> reaching official (or "beta") releases, development releases will only
> be announced on pmwiki-users, with occasional release announcements
> (such as this one) also sent to pmwiki-announce as appropriate.
>
> Note that the 2.0.devel releases are NOT (yet) appropriate for upgrading
> existing PmWiki 1.0 installations. If you want to start a new installation
> using the 2.0 software and moving pages across, that's great, but I
> wouldn't try to install the 2.0 software over an existing 1.0 installation
> because it just won't work. A future developers release will come with
> utilities to help convert existing installations to the 2.0 system.
>
> PmWiki 2.0 is turning out to be a substantial redesign of the entire PmWiki
> system. It has a number of important features and improvements, including:
> * Handles simultaneous editing among multiple authors
> * Improved markup syntax
> * Support for image alt-tags
> * Support for block-level wikistyles and CSS styles
> * Greatly improved markup customizations, including custom block-level markups
> * Conditional markup text
> * Correct generation of <p> paragraphs
> and a whole lot more. You can see the development version in action
> at http://www.pmwiki.org/pmwiki2/pmwiki.php . Of course, many features
> remain the same, such as templated skins/layouts, modular design, as well
> as the PmWikiPhilosophy.
>
> At the moment I'm looking for people who can help test the system,
> report bugs or things that ought to be looked at, and write documentation.
> All of the PmWiki 2 development will be taking place at
> http://www.pmwiki.org/pmwiki2/pmwiki.php. In particular, there is
> a new PmWiki Issue Tracking System for tracking bugs, feature requests,
> and other issues at http://www.pmwiki.org/pmwiki2/pmwiki.php/PITS.
> The tracking system can be used to file bug reports for both PmWiki 2.0
> development and PmWiki 1.x releases.
>
> I'm also looking for a new "default skin" to use for PmWiki 2.0 -- if
> anyone is interested in developing a new skin, you can contribute it to
> http://www.pmwiki.org/pmwiki2/pmwiki.php/Development/Skin .
>
> For those who have made substantial investments in PmWiki 1.0 and prior
> releases--fear not, your systems aren't being abandoned. We will be
> continuing to provide bugfixes and maintenance releases of PmWiki 1.0,
> as well as building a variety of upgrade paths to 2.0 for earlier
> releases of PmWiki.
>
> As always, questions can be directed to the pmwiki-users mailing list,
> sent to me via email, submitted on irc (#pmwiki on irc.freenode.net),
> or placed in the issue tracking system.
>
> Thanks as always to all for your continued support of PmWiki.
>
> Pm
>
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- Ciaran
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