The plan for 0.9.7 release.

First, I sincerely apologize if asking for this means violating some forum rules. I could understand that.

I am developer as well, and you can be sure, that I am well aware, how annyoing is getting plethora of questions about "how? when?" from horde of maniac users . I am generally patient, when it comes to wait for new software, but I’m in specific situation and would like to know some answers, to know what to do.

I am going to start CMS project for my customer quite soon (2-3 weeks). As I understand, 0.9.7 is still in development. Im not asking for any promises, but just want to know if it’s possible, that 0.9.7 could be released in next couple of weeks? I really see MODx as the first REAL PHP CMS here in the market and while I haven’t dug deep, I think I really like it now. Grats guys! And I know what I’m saying, because I were working with Day’s Communique, OpenCMS, Magnolia, Alfresco and some "so-called" CMSes in PHP, like e107, Drupal, Joomla/Mambo, etc. I would like to start my learning from 0.9.7 and it would also be cool to impress client with 0.9.7 features.

I’ve seen the trac issues and also downloaded 0.9.7 branch from SVN, but was unable to install it (couldn’t connect to DB - mysql5, and some xPDO paths were inproper. Am I missing something? 0.9.6 installs and works fine on the same setup). If 0.9.7 is released, how much does the API change and how the current (brilliant) documentation will fit in?

I’d doubt it’ll be a couple of weeks.

0.9.7 has a lot of changes as to how snippets, chunks, etc. are called (there’s a page somewhere on the site that talks about it), so a script will need to be created to change 0.9.6 code over to the new standards. And then that’ll probably need to be bugtested.

Plus, there’s bound to be some issues in the Beta/RC stages with all of the changes.

Quote from: rattkin at Oct 17, 2007, 06:14 PM

I am going to start CMS project for my customer quite soon (2-3 weeks). As I understand, 0.9.7 is still in development. Im not asking for any promises, but just want to know if it’s possible, that 0.9.7 could be released in next couple of weeks?

If 0.9.7 is released, how much does the API change and how the current (brilliant) documentation will fit in?

As Soshite eluded to, our current numbering scheme does not really reflect the nature of the changes coming in the MODx 0.9.7 branch, but suffice to say there will be a significant change to the API and documentation will be new. And if anything, a couple of weeks may reveal a public preview release, but likely nothing beyond alpha level.

We are making major progress, and once the new packaging and installation interfaces are functional, we will be publishing more developer-level information in order to get component developers involved and some critical add-ons migrated to take full advantage of the new features.

Quote from: rattkin at Oct 17, 2007, 06:14 PM

I’ve seen the trac issues and also downloaded 0.9.7 branch from SVN, but was unable to install it (couldn’t connect to DB - mysql5, and some xPDO paths were inproper. Am I missing something? 0.9.6 installs and works fine on the same setup).

With the new features come a few growing pains, one of which is there is now a build step required to prepare the core package for installation when grabbing 0.9.7 from SVN. Core releases will be distributed in several variations with the package already constructed; but with all paths configurable at installation, this step is unavoidable for SVN users. I’ve published details on performing the build process here.

Thank you both for your anwsers. I’ve suspected that I need to do some steps before install 0.9.7 in its current state. I’ll try to do it today.

"0.9.7 has a lot of changes as to how snippets, chunks, etc. are called (there’s a page somewhere on the site that talks about it" - this is very interesting, regarding my recent post here (http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,19088.msg119043.html#msg119043). Could you possibly point me to that page?

Downloaded 0.9.7, did the core build as in instruction (successfuly), but I still cannot connect to DB during installation. I realize that this is not a place to raise such bugs, so if you could point me where to look for help regarding this, I would appreciate that.

rattkin: in regards to reporting problems with development/testing for 0.9.7, use the ticket system on the Trac site. That said, sounds like you have PDO installed but no driver for MySQL enabled. Is this correct?

Well, not really. I have both loaded. It turned out that despite showing that error, when proceeding it installs fine. Must be a bug. Thanks anyway.