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Nov 30 2007

TWiki (4.2 rc1) Microsoft Windows, OSX and rpm (Centos & Fedora Core i386) installers

Tag: enterprise,new,twiki — Sven Dowideit @ 10:21 pm

These Windows, OSX, Centos and Fedora Core installers are fully integrated native installers that will update your Computer with perl, apache, rcs and other tools needed to run TWiki on that platform.

TWiki 4.2.0 contains many new improvements to TWiki, including a much improved Wysiwyg editor, a structured query engine, a more generic authentication system and at the same time, the Core engine is faster than the previous twiki4 releases.

The TWiki installers include native installs of (only installed if not already)

Apache 2.2 (Windows & rpm)
Perl (ActiveState – Windows & native for rpm)
Gnu Grep (Windows only)
Gnu rcs (All platforms)
TWiki 4.2.0 Release Candidate 1.

Please download it, try it out and report your impressions, ideas, bugs and successes here, on TWiki.org, or in the TWiki Bugs system.

Windows TWiki installer 4.2.0 rc 1.1 (23MB)
Mac OSX TWiki installer 4.2.0 rc 1.1 (2MB)
Centos 4&5 and Fedora Core 5&7 4.2.0 rc 1.1 (17MB)

Another TWiki innovation brought to you by distributedINFORMATION & WikiRing.com

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Oct 06 2007

TWiki (4.2 beta) now has MS Windows, OSX and rpm (Centos & Fedora Core i386) installers

Tag: new,twiki,wiki — Sven Dowideit @ 4:10 am

These Windows, OSX, Centos and Fedora Core installers are fully integrated native installers that will update your Computer with perl, apache, rcs and other tools needed to run TWiki on that platform.

The TWiki installers include native installs of (only installed if not already)

Apache 2.2 (Windows & rpm)
Perl (ActiveState – Windows & native for rpm)
Gnu Grep (Windows only)
Gnu rcs (All platforms)
TWiki 4.2.0 beta 2.

Please download it, try it out and report your impressions, ideas, bugs and successes here, on TWiki.org, or in the TWiki Bugs system.

Windows TWiki installer 4.2.0 beta 3.1 (23MB)
Mac OSX TWiki installer 4.2.0 beta 2.1 (2MB)
Centos 4&5 and Fedora Core 5&7 4.2.0 beta 3.1 (17MB)

Another TWiki innovation brought to you by distributedINFORMATION & WikiRing.com

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Jul 02 2007

TWiki does authn_dbm and authn_dbd (DBM and SQL users)

Tag: twiki — Sven Dowideit @ 3:47 am

I’ve just uploaded HTTPDUserAdminContrib that will allow you to use DBM files (a database formated file) and SQL databases (as supported by DBI) for TWiki’s user, password and email address backend.

Combined with apache’s mod_authn_dbm and mod_authn_dbd you thus can integrate TWiki with more tools than ever before.

In fact, this contrib will allow you to authenticate using your Joomla database’s users (please remeber to set registration off, and set the database access to read only ).

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May 11 2007

OpenID support for TWiki coming soon.

Tag: twiki — Sven Dowideit @ 3:44 am

Sven Dowideit’s working on re-architecting TWiki’s authentication and session system to enable better support for external user management – for the upcoming TWiki 4.2.0 release in June, we should see OpenID support – at least for login, and registration – and later, TWiki will be able to be an OpenID providor too..

To make the June – July release, we’re expecting to re-release the Jan-Rain CPAN Consumer – to fix bugs, and make taint safe, and then depending on demand and support, to either maintain that library as the premier perl OpenID library, or when the SXIP library becomes a reality, to port to that.

I guess our thunder has been stolen by Sun’s rather big announcement – http://blogs.sun.com/superpat/entry/openid_at_sun … but it does make the work more important, as Sun use TWiki for things like http://wiki.java.net

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Apr 22 2007

debian repository for TWiki

Tag: debian,twiki — Sven Dowideit @ 3:43 am

I’ve set up a debian repository that you can help test the release package before it gets uploaded into debian proper.

To try it out, add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://distributedinformation.com/experimental/ experimental main contrib deb-src http://distributedinformation.com/experimental/ experimental main contrib
and then run
gpg --keyserver the.earth.li --recv-keys 3C0C33BB442B5BE9 apt-key add /root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg apt-get update apt-get install apache2 twiki

I will be putting my ongoing work into the experimental distribution there, until they are ready for general use from my stable. From there I’ll be pushing them to my debian mentors.

This repository contains about 226 twiki-plugins – autoupdated nightly direct from twiki.org. THe packages have as many dependencies as I was able to coerce my build scripts to work out – but there is more work needed.

This article shows how simple it is to manage your own debian repository. The hard thing is making usable packages.

Sorry, you will get a gpg error on these packages, they are updated nightly direct from twiki.org – and signing the repository requires personal intervention (as far as I can see).

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Mar 09 2007

Adding Web 2.0 interface JavaScript to TWiki

Tag: javascript,wiki — Sven Dowideit @ 3:40 am

While updating the YahooUserInterfaceContrib in TWiki to the just releases 2.2 version, I started to work with the BETA DataTable module.

Firstly, I’ve had to fix TWiki to put the headers and footers into the correct thead and tfoot HTML sections, and then there are the ‘tiny buglets’

sometimes the yui component initialises with only part of the html table
yui hides all rows in the thead and tfoot section (so you loose the spreadsheet calculations we do in TWiki)
you have to hand define the table header elements at the moment, rather than having an option to ‘autodetect’ their names, and possible sorty-ness

But it _is_ a nice begining. I’ll be doing further work on it in TWiki (especially in the BugsContrib, and its derived task manager), and i’m planning on replacing the Catalyst DBIx paging with the dataTable Paging in mySpending.

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