[horde] [announce] Horde 4.0-ALPHA1

[Michael Rubinsky]

Quoting ANANT S ATHAVALE <asa at isac.gov.in>:

> Dear Developers,
>
> Thanks for the good news.
>
> But, will there be Horde Groupware Webmail Edition after successful testing?

No. Since the installation process has been revamped (PEAR  
installable, database migrations etc...) the bundles are no longer  
necessary.



> ----- Message from jan at horde.org ---------
>     Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:31:44 +0100
>     From: Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
> Reply-To: core at lists.horde.org
>  Subject: [announce] Horde 4.0-ALPHA1
>       To: announce at lists.horde.org
>
>
>> After more than two years of development, the Horde Team is pleased  
>> to announce
>> the first alpha release of the Horde Application Framework version 4.0.
>>
>> The Horde Application Framework is a flexible, modular, general-purpose web
>> application framework written in PHP. It provides an extensive array of
>> components that are targeted at the common problems and tasks involved in
>> developing modern web applications. It is the basis for a large number of
>> production-level web applications, notably the Horde Groupware  
>> suites. For more
>> information on Horde or the Horde Groupware suites, visit  
>> http://www.horde.org.
>>
>> IMPORTANT! This is a preview version that should not be used on production
>> systems. This version is considered feature complete but there are  
>> likely to be
>> bugs. You should not use this preview version with existing production
>> data. Migration of data from earlier versions has not been fully  
>> tested yet and
>> is not supported.
>>
>> We encourage widespread testing and feedback via the mailing lists  
>> or our bug
>> tracking system. Updated translations are very welcome, though some strings
>> might still change before the release candidates are prepared.
>>
>> The installation method for Horde 4 has been changed to use the PEAR
>> installer. To prepare your local PEAR installation to install software from
>> Horde's PEAR server, run the following commands from the command line:
>>
>>  pear channel-discover pear.horde.org
>>  pear install horde/horde_role-alpha
>>  pear run-scripts horde/horde_role
>>
>> The last command will ask you for the filessystem location for your Horde
>> installation. This should be some path in your web server's document root,
>> e.g. /var/www/horde. These commands only need to be run once. You are now
>> prepared to install, upgrade and uninstall Horde packages. To  
>> install the alpha
>> release of Horde, run the following commands:
>>
>>  pear install horde/horde-alpha
>>
>> Just go to the config/ directory of your Horde installation and copy
>> conf.php.dist to conf.php:
>>
>>  cd /var/www/horde/config/
>>  cp conf.php.dist conf.php
>>
>> Then point your browser to the installation location, go to the
>> Administration/Configuration screen and start configuring. You probably want
>> to:
>>
>> 1. Configure a real authentication backend!
>> 2. Configure a database backend (Horde configuration, Database tab)
>> 3. Install the database tables ("Update all DB schemas" button)
>> 4. Configure any other applications you installed
>>
>> For more detailed installation and configuration instructions, e.g. how to
>> install Horde from PEAR into a location other than the system  
>> default, please
>> see https://github.com/horde/horde/blob/master/horde/docs/INSTALL.
>>
>> The major changes compared to the Horde version 3.3 are:
>>
>>    * Completely refactored component library for PHP 5
>>    * Much easier installation through PEAR installer
>>    * Simplified configuration process
>>    * Frameless layout
>>    * Grouping into advanced and simple user preferences
>>    * Improved caching and reduced session sizes
>>    * Much faster Share library
>>    * Better Share support for large user basis
>>    * Improved Image library
>>    * Reduced dependency on external libraries
>>    * Lots of improvements in all library components
>>
>> Please see our issue tracker for a list of open bugs on this release:
>> http://bugs.horde.org/query/showstoppers4
>>
>> The full list of changes (from version 3.3) can be viewed here:
>>
>> https://github.com/horde/horde/blob/03a543976c302ba1c7da5674580f6f2dbb76c6d5/horde/docs/CHANGES
>>
>> Have fun!
>>
>> The Horde Team.
>>
>>
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>
> ----- End message from jan at horde.org -----
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Anant Athavale.
>
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mike

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