[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde
Subject:    Rekall: Release notes
From:       Mike Richardson <mike () quaking ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-05-16 7:40:44
[Download RAW message or body]

A chunk of the Rekall 0.4 release notes seem to have gone missing on their 
way to sourceforge, so here they are. Also, MDK80 and CAL24 builds shortly

Release notes for Rekall V0.4
-----------------------------

This release of rekall is primarily intended as a release which will
build cleanly on at least the following distributions. The major
changes to Rekall itself are listed below.

Redhat		6.2, 7.0, 7.1
Mandrake	7.2, 8.0
SuSE		7.0, 7.1
Caldera		2.4

We home to have builds for Slackware and Debian available with the next
release.

In each case, it has been built against KDE 2.1.1 and QT >= 2.2.4.
using prepackaged versions where possible.

RPMs are available for each of the above, with the following KDE and QT
locations:

Distro		KDE		QT
Redhat 6.2	/usr		/usr/lib/qt-2.2.4
Redhat 7.0	/usr		/usr/lib/qt-2.2.4
Redhat 7.1	/usr		/usr/lib/qt-2.3.0
Mandrake 7.2	/usr		/usr/lib/qt2
Mandrake 8.0	/usr		/usr/lib/qt2
SuSE 7.0	/opt/kde2	/usr/lib/qt2
SuSE 7.1	/opt/kde2	/usr/lib/qt2
Caldera 2.4	/opt/kde		/usr/lib/qt2

In addition, RPMs for the xbsql XBase wrapper, and for the xbase
library, are also available. These are all built with prefix /usr.

The RPMs depend on the usual set of KDE and QT rpms. In addition they
require Postgres, MySQL, xbase/xbsql and KDE-DB to be installed.
However, if only a subset of there are actually present, you can
install with the rpm --nodeps option; when run, Rekall should simply
fail to load the drivers for the missing databases.

If you build Rekall from the sources, you will need to hand-edit
db/Makefile.am to remove the entries for any database types which are
nore available. Note the Mandrake 7.2 and 8.0 seem to have a bug in the
way MySQL is installed; either of the the commands

ln -s /usr/lib/libmysql* /usr/lib/mysql
cp /usr/lib/libmysql* /usr/lib/mysql

should fix this; this was noted on one of the KDE mailing lists.



Rekall changes from V0.3 to V0.4
--------------------------------

* Rekall can operate in either SDI or MDI mode; use either --useSDI or
--useMDI as a command line argument. Alternatively, from the
View/Options dialog, select the Interface tab and select the required
mode. It will be neccessary to restart Rekall for this change to take
affect. We indend to experiment with docking/undocking in the future.

* Reports have been changed to use controls in common with forms; this
applies to text fields, labels and images (pixmaps). This means that
any reports created with V0.3 will no longer work, however thay can be
hand edited if stored in a file. Mail me (mike@quaking.demon.co.uk) if
you need details.



Documentation
-------------

Sorry. Using Rekall is still a lateral thinking game, particularly if
you are going to design forms and reports. However, some documentation
is now underway; we will make this available as soo as possible.

Regards
Mike

-- 
mike@quaking.demon.co.uk
http://www.quaking.demon.co.uk
-- 
Send posts to:  kde@lists.netcentral.net
 Send all commands to:  kde-request@lists.netcentral.net
  Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message:
   "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off"
PLEASE READ THE ARCHIVED MESSAGES AT http://lists.kde.org/ BEFORE POSTING
**********************************************************************
This list is from your pals at NetCentral <http://www.netcentral.com/>

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]