Installer 4.0b6 and New Updated Repository Code

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Hi!

Proudly presenting you the new beta of Installer - 4.0b6.

New and changed:
  • Search. It searches among packages from the repositories you have added, and, if you let it sit for 5 seconds, will query our server and return packages that are available from repositories you don't have added (that we know about) with an option to automatically add and install. Repository owners, upgrade to the latest version of the repo code (below) to have your repository added to the search engine.
  • Uninstall now works correctly.
  • Fixed a lot of locking issues especially with custom HTML info pages.
  • Updated the Categories and Tasks icons so they are less ugly.
  • Fixed a bug with multiple copies of Installer appearing in Installed Packages under some circumstances.
  • Installer will now correctly check and prompt for an update of itself.

Also, to accompany the Installer release, a new edition of the Repository code is up. Grab it here: repo-r1114.zip

What's new in the repo code?
  • Added an option to ping the Installer search server so it reindexes your repository. The ping occurs during regenerate.php run.
  • Much better handling of ZIP archives, since this is what most people had troubles with. It now attempts to determine which way to use to unzip your files (PEAR::ZipArchive, zip_open or shell_exec("unzip")). Please note that we didn't test zip_open piece of the code as we don't have a server with that plugin compiled in PHP.
  • DOMDocument::load() should work under PHP4. We hope.
  • Slightly better handling of the multiple versions of the same package.
How to upgrade? Simply replace regenerate.php with the new one, and add new configuration parameters from config.inc.default.php to your config.inc.php. There are two: REPOSITORY_URL, that should have a full path to your repo (with a trailing slash), and ZIP_CMDLINE_PATH (only add this if needed). Refer to config.inc.default.php for the descriptions and copy-paste goodness.

Don't forget to regenerate your repositories once upgraded, and also don't forget to put 2.0.2 into POSSIBLE_FIRMWARE_VERSIONS array so people on the new firmware can see your packages!

Thanks. :)

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Techcrunch: Recap Of The Davos Tech Exec Interviews

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Here's a recap of all of the interviews and other videos of technology executives who attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week:
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One Parisian Apartment’s Ingenious Use of Space

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Walls. They’re so bourgeois, non? Unless, of course, they’re used in a totally functional way. An advertising exec living in Paris hired h2o Architects to completely rehab his digs. The mission: eliminate walls without a clear purpose, open up the small space and make better use of the remaining walls. Originally, the [...]
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Techcrunch: Yahoo EVP Ash Patel, One Of the First Yahoos, Announces His Departure

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Ash Patel, a senior Yahoo exec and one of the company's longest serving employees, will shortly be stepping down. His last day will be next Monday. Patel was one of Yahoo's first sixty employees, and joined shortly before the company went public in April 1996. There are just six current Yahoo employees who joined before Patel, the company says. His first job at Yahoo was "technical Yahoo," a title given to all engineers. He created the My Yahoo product and also built Yahoo's first instant messenger client. He stopped coding for a living in 2002 and has since been in a series of product and engineering executive positions.
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Digg: Rep. Suggests Samurai Suicide for BP Exec (Video)

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At a hearing oil execs Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.) had harsh words for President and Chair of BP America, Lamar McKay. Cao says that instead of being fired, in the samurai days he would have just given him a knife and ask them to commit "hara-kari."



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