The ooRexx project is announcing the start of an official beta release of ooDialog 4.2.0.
ooDialog 4.2.0 is the first major enhancement in ooDialog in over a decade. There are many improvements and enhancements, more than can be listed explicitly. The Release Notes displayed alongside the ooDialog installation package in the File download section on SourceForge has a "New in ooDialog 4.2.0" section that gives an outline of the changes. To fully understand the changes refer to the ooDialog 4.2.0 reference manual, which is include with the 4.2.0 installation. As always, open up any bugs discovered in the beta release in the bug tracker on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=119701&atid=684730 and report documentation errors in the doc tracker on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=119701&atid=1001880 ooDialog users are strongly urged to test the beta release and open up bugs now, rather than wait for the official release. In conjunction with the announcement of the beta, the ooRexx project is announcing the option of installing ooDialog "independently" of the ooRexx installation. An independent installation of ooDialog is an installation package that installs a version of ooDialog over the top of an existing ooRexx installation. The ooDialog installation package replaces whatever version of ooDialog currently exists in the ooRexx installation with the installation package's version of ooDialog. Each independent version of ooDialog has a minimum required version of ooRexx. Any version of ooDialog can be installed as long the version of the installed ooRexx meets the minimum requirement of the ooDialog package. The following packages are available: ooDialog Version Required ooRexx Version ================================================ ooDialog 4.0.0 ooRexx 4.0.0 ooDialog 4.1.0 ooRexx 4.0.0 ooDialog 4.2.0 (beta 1) ooRexx 4.1.0 The ooDialog version numbers have been decoupled from the ooRexx version numbers. Future versions of ooDialog will be released as independent installation packages. If a new version of ooDialog is available, users will be able to upgrade to that version of ooDialog without waiting for a new version of ooRexx to be released. ooDialog will continue to be distributed with ooRexx. A new release of ooRexx will contain the latest released version of ooDialog. Note that with the independent installation of ooDialog users that may be unhappy with the direction ooDialog is taking will always be able to upgrade their ooRexx installation, and then install the older version of ooDialog. The independent installation packages make upgrading to ooDialog 4.2.0 risk free. If the user is unhappy with ooDialog 4.2.0, then the user can simply install the ooDialog 4.1.0 package to regain the ooDialog version prior to the upgrade. The ooDialog section in the ooRexx File download area on SourceForge contains the installation packages for ooDialog: http://sourceforge.net/projects/oorexx/files/ooDialog: -- Mark Miesfeld for the ooRexx Developement Team ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Oorexx-users mailing list Oorexx-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-users
