new.spirit - Changes

This is the Windows formatted version of the file 'CHANGES'.

Changes of new.spirit

2.2.1 Mon Oct 31 2005, joern

Features

Initial Perl Statement for database configuration objects (forward-ported from new.spirit 2.0.x)

2.2.0 Wed Sep 21 2005, joern

Features

Base configuration:
- switch to enable XHTML conform code generation
- switch to enable whitespace truncation around CIPP tags

2.1.26 Tue Aug 9 2005, joern

Bugfix

Sometimes a project dist installation the cipp.conf was not replaced with the proper version of the production system, due to a wrong cache check.

2.1.25 Tue Nov 9 2004, joern

Features

dbshell.pl: escape internal dbshell.pl commands with a backslash, e.g. \set, to pass the command to the database although it's an internal dbshell.pl command.

2.1.24 Thu Nov 4 2004, joern

Bugfixes

project installation: HTML files were generated in the wrong context (config files of the development system instead of production system)

2.1.23 Thu Nov 4 2004, joern

Features

base configuration: automatcially add #! to the shebang line if missing

2.1.22 Fri Sep 10 2004, joern

Features

support for LDAP v1 and v2, configurable at installation time

2.1.20 Thu Aug 21 2003, joern

Features

save_filter_command is executed after installation, not only after saving. This way the filter is also triggered if you use the newspirit client programm.

2.1.19 Tue Aug 12 2003, joern

Bugfixes

"Project compilation" created "html.m" files for folders named "html".

2.1.18 Thu Aug 07 2003, joern

Bugfixes

sometimes the project compilation claimed to be error-free, but wasn't
database prod config file was corrupt if the user entered ' characters in database configuration parameters.
fixed a minor typo in the README file

2.1.17

Bugfixes

fixed passwd/session deadlock problem
' in fields of a database configuration created an invalid prod .db-conf file.

Features

new project configuration parameter: add_prod_dir. Enables searching for includes, libs and configs in external CIPP3 projects. Needs CIPP 2.9.22.

2.1.16

Bugfixes

prod replacing didn't work
inc/ directory wasn't installed

2.1.15

Features

New project attribute 'utf8', which enables the utf8-awareness of CIPP >= 2.9.19

Bugfixes

Perl syntax checking of HTML objects didn't work, runtime errors were supressed, HTML code creation failed silently. (#3170)
"Not an ARRAY reference" exception in case of base configuration dependency errors fixed.

2.1.14

Features

perl shebang line can also be configured for the development environment, not only for production environment. 2.1.13

Features

new command line program ns-projects. It lists all projects with name and root directory, delimited by a tab character.

2.1.12

Features

scrolling for depenceny installation less aggressive (only one scroll command per second)
synchronized with some internal CIPP3 API changes

2.1.11 2002/08/26 joern

Features

new attribute in the base configuration: CGI parameter delimiter. You can decide between ; and &. & is known to make problems with some browsers, because specific strings may be interpreted as an entity, even inside an URL (e.g. &not=1). You must recompile the whole project after changing this attribute.

Bugfixes

cipp-html objects didn't depend on the base configuration
compilation of cipp-html objects was cached, what's nonsense, because the document is generated at compile time

2.1.10 2002/06/07 joern

Features

dbshell.pl: added -x option which enables abort mode

2.1.9 2002/06/04 joern

Features

dbshell.pl: support CIPP3 .db-conf files

2.1.8 2002/04/09 joern

Features

support for brief error supports in cmd line mode

2.1.7 2002/04/08 joern

Features

name of new.spirit server is stored in base configuration source file
newspirit command line tool has -g switch for opening a Gtk+ window with its output. useful for integration into an external IDE.

2.1.6 2002/04/05 joern

Features

project name is stored in base configuration source file

2.1.5 2002/03/21 joern

Bugfixes

sometimes cached errors wasn't reported

Features

caching for all object types

2.1.4 2001/10/29 joern

Bugfixes

users can't be modified in LDAP mode

2.1.3 2001/10/26 joern

Features

LDAP support

2.1.2 2001/10/25 joern

first internal Alpha Release with CIPP3 support. This version REQUIRES CIPP3

2.0.15 2002/01/23 joern

Features

a new attribute of the database configuration object enables you to use persistent database connections in conjunction with mod_perl or SpeedyCGI.
Note: this requires CIPP version 2.42 with CIPP::Runtime
version 0.40 in the production environment.

You can even use programs and configurations produced with new.spirit 2.0.15 in conjunction with older CIPP releases. But then, enabling persistent database connections in new.spirit will be without effect on the production system.

2.0.14 2001/11/23 joern

Features

new.spirit now ships with a command line client, installed as bin/newspirit. You can install programs, compile and install projects with this tool. It's usable for scripting update and installation procedures.

Execute bin/newspirit to get the usage description.

          BE CAREAFUL: the state of this program is ALPHA. It should
          not destroy any data, because it calls the appropriate
          CGI programs remotely on the server. But don't rely too much
          on its output. Really safe error processing is currently
          not possible, because messages are mainly passed through
          without change. Parsing them, may fail if message formats
          change on the server.

2.0.13 2001/10/30 joern

Bugfixes

generic and blob files (e.g. jar files) were not processed by 'Project Compilation'
removed shebang line and execute flags from install.pl, to prevent confusing when started directly without 'perl'

Features

update shipped CIPP version to 2.40

2.0.12 2001/10/12 joern

Features

dbshell.pl has a new 'set display_style' parameter: tab. This produces TAB delimited output of SELECT statements, great for creating reports.

2.0.11 2001/10/08 joern

Bugfixes

CGI Program execution did not work, if the project root directory was specified with a trailing slash on project creation.
on systems where the installation program decides to use GDBM_File the passwd initialization failed. The file was created with DB_File, but later new.spirit tried to open it with GDBM_File.
deletion of x.configuration now impossible

2.0.10 2001/09/26 joern

Bugfix

project meta directory was not created for new projects

Features

project specific object templates. Just create a folder x.tmpl and put objects there which are named like the corresponding object type. E.g. for CIPP Programs call it 'cipp', for Includes 'cipp-inc' and so on. When new objects of this type are created, they are initialized based on these templates.

2.0.9 2001/09/21 joern

Bugfix

shebang map did not accept object names of form x.foo.bla. The x wasn't replaced by the project name.

2.0.8 2001/09/21 joern

Features

shebang map. You can configure a map in additional base configuration objects, which assigns objects and folders to the shebang, which should be used when installing this project. Useful for controlling SpeedyCGI in detail.

Bugfix

text object types were not installed via "Project Compilation"
installation error messages were not printed, only "NOT OK"

2.0.7 2001/08/13 joern

Bugfix

Project Installation: prod replacing of configs was too late. installed html objects did use the original configs, instead of the replaced configs.

2.0.6 2001/08/07 joern

Features

not only CGI programs can be executed via the object editor, CIPP/HTML pages can be viewed, too.

2.0.5 2001/07/24 joern

Bugfix

Bugzilla Bug #639 dbshell.pl:Tabulator key produces spaces instead of weird command completion (if Term::ReadLine::Perl is used. With Term::ReadLine::Gnu currently Tab keys will be ignored)
Bugzilla Bug #835: History viewing did not work on CIPP CGI objects, when the version number exceeded the maximum version number of the
"Test CGI" renamed to "Execute CGI"
fixed a typo in an "Execute CGI" error message popup window. base configuration object.

Features

Bugzilla Enhancement #684: new "Java File" object type for files with the extensions: jar, cap, class and properties. These files are handled through a new internal generic Blob handler. It is easy to add new blob file types with this handler.
but this generic blob handler is unable to handle files with unknown extensions. For those files a new object type for generic / unknown file types has been added You can upload such files and decide to install them into htdocs, cgi-bin or not to install. CIPP is able to get the URL of such an object.

2.0.4_01 2001/05/14 joern

        INTERNAL BETA RELEASE
        Bugfix:
        - Bugzilla Bug #132:
          CIPP 2.36_01, which fixes some mod_perl issues, is shipped
          with this release
        - Bugzilla Bug #316:
          prod/logs is now created for a new project

        Features:
        - Bugzilla Bug #99:
          Direct execution of CGI programs is now possible. A new entry
          in the editor window popup appears: "Test CGI". A new window
          is opened with the URL of the current CIPP CGI program (window
          position and size can be configured). You can pass parameters
          through the generic text input field, formatted the standard
          URL encoded way: 'a=1&b=2'. Thanks go to kurt@dimedis.de for his
          suggestion.
        - install.pl warns now if the installed CIPP version is older
          than the shipped version
        - added Artistic and Gnu Public Licenses to the distribution

2.0.3 2001/04/03 joern

Bugfix

deletion of DB Configuration objects did not work

2.0.2 2001/03/26 joern

Bugfixes

Project Installation: database config replacing did not work properly

2.0.1 2001/03/23 joern

Bugfixes

fixed a bug in the bugfix ;) New deterministic meta file format was messed up in some cases

2.0.0 2001/03/23 joern

Bugfixes

fixed a regex which checks object existence. Due to this bug specifying a replace action object failed under some circumstances
Project Installation: "Refresh Base Configs Popup" link was missing, if no base configs are in the base config cache, so recreating the cache was impossible in this case
Alternative Base Configurations: Falling back to default project root did not work.
format of object property data files is now deterministic, so CVS should not report unnecessary conflicts anymore.
meta files of CIPP Config objects were saved unnecessaryly on every access, which caused problems in read only environments
login was impossible if the users access right on his last selected project was revoked
dbshell.pl: execution of prod/sql scripts was broken. dbshell.pl was unable to find the correspondent database configuration.

Because there are no significant known bugs on the TODO list:

WELCOME TO VERSION 2.0.0 :)

1.99.22 2001/03/19 joern

Bugfixes

SQL execution was completely broken, due to a bug in the command line parser module

1.99.21 2001/03/15 joern

Bugfixes

Mozilla wrapped long lines of the project tree browser
If the last command of a SQL script was not terminated by a semicolon, it was executed infinetely.

Features

save trigger filter Now you can specify a save filter script for each object. This means: everytime you save the object, this filter script is invoked with the source of the object connected to STDIN. It is possible to pass the full path name of the object file as an argument, using a %s wildcard. Configuration of the save filter script is placed in the properties dialog.
Project Installation: #! is implicitely added to the shebang line, if the user did omit it

1.99.20 2001/03/14 joern

Features

you now can configure an Perl shebang line for project installation in CIPP Base Configuration objects

1.99.19 2001/03/09 joern

Bugfixes

included actual CIPP version 2.29, which fixes a serious <?!HTTPHEADER> bug (see Changes file of CIPP, for details)
user preferences are now applied immediately after saving

Features

New preferences:
- Treeview font face/size
- Select last opened project by default after login
new created projects now have default values in their base configuration (e.g. http header Pragma: no-cache)
new created SQL objects now refer to the default database configuration
you can limit the maximum size of the object history, by setting an appropriate value in the base configuration (default is 20)
Project Compilation "replace object" output reduced.
new.spirit now checks for object existence, if you configure a object to be replaced while installation
during the installation process your are warned, if an object is replaced more than once

1.99.18 2001/03/07 joern

Features

included actual CIPP version 2.28
added htdocs/doc/index.html for some information about documentation

1.99.17 2001/03/05 joern

Bugfixes

the CIPP BEGIN block, which sets the library path, was stripped off for syntax checking. So projects, which depend on a additional library path failed in compilation. This version of new.spirit REQUIRES now CIPP version 2.27

1.99.16 2001/03/05 joern

Bugfixes

"Project Compilation" with dependency truncation did not delete the internal modules hash file. If a module was moved by hand, new.spirit complains about a double module definition, and even a project compilation did not fix this.
BEGIN{} and/or END{} blocks were executed during Perl syntnax check, which sometimes makes the system hang.

Features

you can now define more than one additional perl library search directory by delimiting them with a colon.

1.99.15 2001/02/27 joern

Bugfixes

the 'use_strict' attribute of CIPP modules was not always correctly initialized (enabled). Now this attribute should always default to 1.
error formatting in case of a CIPP/new.spirit module name clashing was messed up

1.99.14 2001/02/19 joern

Bugfixes

"Project Installation" did not install the prod/lib/ directory
"Project Installation" did not install the proper default database configuration
first installation of a new module did throw an error message
creation of image objects did not work
project deletion without selection of a project entry was possible
object creation using irregular names is prevented now
project list is now sorted by project name instead of project description. This fixes also a bug: two projects with the same description were indistinguishable
first time creation of a base configuration object causes an exception
the NewSpirit::Object class did always set a lock on the object, even if this was an internal instantiation, e.g. for a "Project Compilation".

Features

timestamps of installed files (using "Project Installation") are now set to the source file timestamps. This make rsync's job easier.

1.99.13 2001/02/15 joern

Bugfix

database connection code of generated modules was broken
now new.spirit needs CIPP 2.19 or better, due to the extensions of dynamic database connections (which also fixes the bug stated above)

ATTENTION

You must upgrade your production environments with the shipped CIPP 2.19 release, because the CIPP::Runtime did change. CGI programs created with this release WILL NOT RUN with CIPP versions < 2.19 (resp. CIPP::Runtime < 0.36)

1.99.12 2001/02/14 joern

Bugfixes

alternative database names did still not work.
a htdocs mapping of '/' did produce wrong URLs

Features

base configuration objects have a new field for a additional perl library directory. So external private libraries can easily be included into your project.

1.99.11 2001/02/13 joern

Bugfixes

missing Lock Files produce only warnings and no exceptions (this happens, if a project disappears from the filesystem. The thrown exception prevents from selecting another project, so we had a classical deadlock situation ;)
creating a project where the project root dir alredy exists, but was not owned by the spirit webserver user, did not work, although if the user has write access
dependency processing did sometimes compile too much objects, because transitive dependencies were not filtered enough
prod replace function did not work properly

1.99.10 2001/02/12 joern

Bugfixes

alternative database names did not work

1.99.9 2001/02/11 joern

Features

bin/convert_cipp-img.pl can execute appropriate cvs commands for you

1.99.8 2001/02/09 joern

Bugfixes

SQL object database assignment conversion (spirit 1.x -> new.spirit 2.x) did not work
usage of Archive::Tar is replaced by a internal new.spirit function for copying directories recursively. This fixes the problelm with Archive::Tar under Windows platforms. Also this is much faster and more reliable than the Archive::Tar solution.

Cleanup

default mappings changed: /newspirit2 and /cgi-bin2

Features

the object editor has a new popup entry for submitting: "Install (edited external)". Use this method, if you modified the object file with an external editor and want new.spirit to install this file, without saving the content of the object editor.
there is a new user preference. The use can decide, if the editor submit popup should not be preselected with any entry, so the user must decide actively, which action should be performed.
Link to the CHANGES file on the login page

1.99.7 2001/02/07 joern

Cleanup

some local perl library path modifications in newspirit.conf are removed by mktardist.pl. I need them on my development system to work with the almost actual CIPP release, without need to install CIPP into my official perl library path.

Features

'Project Installation' can now include SQL prod and src files. src files in that way, that a miniminal src tree is built, which can be used on the production system to execute SQL scripts and arbitrary SQL commands (of course, only if you install new.spirit on the production system for this purpose ;). This src tree only includes a base configuration, all database configuration files and SQL objects.

1.99.6 2001/02/01 joern

Bugfixes

extended base configuration paramters
- project root of production system
Installation procedure did not copy images to the installation directory
session preservation did not always work
removed switch for omitting Include processing in 'Project Compilation'. Due to this, Include dependencies were broken
create 'logs' directory in 'Project Installation'

Features

removed the NEWSPIRIT subdirectories. A new 'meta' subdirectory on project root toplevel takes the corresponding files. So the 'src' tree ist free of non CVSable files, which makes life much easier
object property files reside now in the same directory as the corresponding object file, with '.m' attached to the extension. So adding new files to CVS is easier.
CIPP 2.16_01 is mandatory for this new.spirit release
final filesystem structure: all files modified by the webserver are now inside the var tree

1.99.5 2001/01/29 joern

Bugfixes

verbosity of include error output in dependency installation was too high
optimized the builtin Perl syntax checker (solves open2 resource problem unter Windows NT)

Features

Project Compilation:
- user can decide, whether includes should be processed seperately (for error checking) or not
- with or without deletion of the production tree
upgraded shipped CIPP distribution to 2.15

1.99.4 2001/01/25 joern

First release candiate.

Bugfixes

dependency processing had an esoteric bug. Sometimes dependent objects were not processed

Features

project installation. If you're on a windows box, refer to the release notes.
needed Perl modules are bundled with the new.spirit distribution

1.99.2 2000/?/? joern

Bugfixes

install.pl did not use the determined DB_File module itself. instead the module of our development environment was used
cipp-html objects now always depend on the base configuration
renamed /icons URL to /i => shorter HTML code => no clashing with Apache standard mapping "/icons"

Features

project compilation now shows number of objects to process
creation of cipp-html objects with .css extension now possible

1.99.1 2000/08/10 joern

        First dimedis internal beta release
        - basic project installation stuff

1.99.0 2000/xx/xx joern

        First internal alpha release, lacks many features, e.g.
        - cvs support
        - project installation
        - generic tool interface