Posted by on under repository code, versis, custom html, test zip, zip archives, search server, repositories, opti, t test, copy paste, cfig, pear, goodness, parameters, peoe, array, exec, circumstances, beta, search engine | 
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.zipWhat'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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Posted by on under artts, firmware package, iphe, os features, category titles, course thanks, prae, native language, snag, repositories, serbian, repository, hebrew, portuguese, amp, wallpaper, servers, languages, stock |
First things first. When we've started working on Icy two and a half weeks ago, we have never expected this kind of feedback -- and it was totally awesome!
Silly Icy wallpaper by Telman Akavov
In the past week, we have addressed most annoying issues you had with Icy -- and added the most anticipated feature, Recent Packages. With the help of fellow artists around the world, various themes for Icy are appearing in the repositories - so if you don't like the default black&white pure look, go for one of the themes. ;)
Last 3 days, we've been furiously adding the localizations you have sent in -- as Icy is a true iPhone application, it takes full advantage of the iPhone OS features like internationalization -- and as a result, Icy 1.1.1 comes with 15 languages in stock! This is all, of course, thanks to your extremely hard efforts -- we don't speak that many languages.
So now Icy is available in German, French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Greek, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Serbian, Hebrew, Romanian, Serbian and Ukranian languages -- in addition to English, of course. :) To see your native language, make sure it is chosen as a primary language in the Settings > International (well, or replace English.lproj in the Icy.app with the folder of your language, if you must. I didn't tell you that, okay?).
Among other things, we have tweaked the way sources are refreshed, fixed an annoying dependency-related bug when it would complain about missing firmware package, and added little category titles in the Recent Packages screen so it's easier to see what is what:
We also had some positive praise from the repository owners around the world -- they are happy with the way More Info pages are displayed -- and they say the pages load faster than in Cydia. The ads you see on the More Info pages help repository owners keep their servers up and running -- so give them some support by viewing and clicking on them -- we don't receive a dime from these.
Either way, snag Icy 1.1.1 from apt.ripdev.com and tell us what you think. And we're already working on Icy 1.2, which will bring a few other major features you have asked for.
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Posted by on under category names, repositories, repository, butt, regard, fi |
Another week passes with another update to our lightweight installer application
Icy.
What's new?
- Ability to hide categories you don't need.
- Category names are now localizable.
- Icy will now auto-refresh sources if it is on Wi-Fi and didn't refresh in past hour.
- Various GUI fixes in regard to Installed/Updates section.
- Fixed a script issue causing some package not to be installed.
- Add email maintainer button for the console error log sheet to quickly report on errors.
- Fixed sources refresh so stalled repositories won't affect others.
- Added Polish localization.
- Added Chinese localizations.
- Other fixes.
Next step -- dependencies view. Enjoy!
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Posted by on under th weekend, mac os x, lger, repositories, cheers, pipeline, os x, nbsp, ing |
Just a quick note to say that a minor update to our Mac OS X application,
InstallerApp is now out. Version 1.0.3 fixes a problem that caused some repositories be unaccessible. Download
here.
Icy update is also in the pipeline, but is taking a little longer than anticipated, so expect it either this weekend or sometime early next week. :)
Cheers!
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Posted by on under google images, images search, progress indicator, google, well thanks, source files, repositories, repos, dependencies, search result, repository, thanks for your support, fi |
Google Images search result for "Icy girl"
Yep, as promised, it's time for
Icy 1.3. What's new?
- Package dependencies now can be viewed (as well as whether a particular dependency is installed or not).
- Sources refresh tab now shows a progress indicator when refresh is in progress.
- Ability to turn on and off automatic refresh of sources when on Wi-Fi.
- Much better Unicode handling of repositories; this should resolve most issues for non-English repos.
- Commercial (Cydia store) packages are given an additional warning in the description.
- Better handling of Conflicts field.
- Better handling of poorly made packages.
Next thing coming up is better handling of repository packages that you can install -- they install APT source files that Icy will not use (as it doesn't uses APT, only DPKG) -- so next release of Icy will support these files as well.
Thanks for your support! :)
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