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Subject:    [kde-announce] Rekall 2.2.3 and Rekall 2.3.2 released
From:       Mike Richardson <mike () quaking ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date:       2004-12-17 13:01:05
Message-ID: 200412172057.30434.mike () quaking ! demon ! co ! uk
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Rekall version 2.2.3 (the latest stable release) and version 2.3.2 
(development) are now available from:

http://www.rekallrevealed.org/

Rekall is a database front end in the sense that MS Access is (or KNoda or 
Kexi). Rekall includes:

* GPL'd rivers for MySQL, PostgreSQL and for XBase (DB4) files (via the XBSQL 
wrapper library).
* Read-only driver for DBTCP (http://www.fastflow.it/dbtcp/)
* Table design and data access
* Graphic form, reports and query design and execution
* Database import/export via a generalised "copier"
* Fully scriptable using Python with built-in debugger
* Ability to construct reusable components for forms and reports
* Basic database dumping and loading


Rekall 2.2.3
---------------
This is mostly a maintenance release with a few odd things added as requested 
by users. The biggest change is that the build files have been brought up to 
date. The download tarball rekall-2.2.3-2.tar.gz replaces the version which 
appeared on the site a few days ago, which was a real mess (thanks to  Peter 
Eisentraut for pointing this out) but the actual code is unchanged.

This version has been built on RH90, FC2/3, MDK100, SuSE90/91 (and SLES9) and 
Debian Sarge. I guess SuSE92 and MDK101 should be OK, plus any recent 
Debian-based distro.


Rekall 2.3.2
---------------
This is the latest development release. Below is a summary of the changes 
compared to the 2.2.x releases:

* Supports "dynamic" form layouts (where the layout changes as the window is 
resized, like dialog boxes).

* Toolboxes (can be turned off to behave like 2.2.x)

* Control wizards (can be turned off to behave like 2.2.x)

* Simplified scripting for common cases (eg., field.value = 'Mike' rather than 
field.setValue(0,'Mike'))

* Documentation browser (like a stripped down Qt Assistant) ... but the manual 
needs updating for some of the above!


Autotools hell now completely obliterated, uses scons (www.scons.org) as its 
build system.

2.3.2 builds as both KDE and QT3-only versions, requires QT3.3 (FC2/3, 
SuSE91/92, Mdk100/101......).


Regards
Mike

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