Brian made a tarball for the "SchoolTool 2006 alpha2" release last night. It is available here for the anxious:
ftp://ftp.schooltool.org/pub/schooltool/releases/2006.0-alpha2/ However, in this raw form it isn't much of a "release," in terms of ease of use and installation, for somewhat complicated reasons. SchoolTool depends on lots of other Python and Zope packages. In Ubuntu and Debian (and K12LTSP), this is handled by the package management system, so you can just "apt-get install schooltool" and everything else you need is sucked down. The problem (as I understand it, if I'm wrong, please correct me) is that apparently the way Python packages are organized in Debian unstable (and in turn the upcoming Ubuntu Edgy) has been completely reorganized. Presumably for the better. But at the moment it would be a non-trivial amount of work for us to support both Dapper and Edgy packages for SchoolTool. Let me put it this way: more work than our *volunteer* Debian packager wants to put into it. Just getting the forward-looking packages working right is a LOT of work, so I can't quibble. To summarize, we're currently working on .deb packages for SchoolTool 2006 that will run on a current Debian Unstable box or a future Ubunty Edgy box. Whether we'll have to make Dapper packages for upcoming beta releases remains to be seen. Anyhow, the situation isn't as grave as it may sound at this point. Getting SchoolTool running from the source tarball linked to above is about five or six steps instead of one. It is, ironically, slightly more complicated than getting a development version running from a Subversion checkout. I'm going to try to write a script that will automate most, if not all of the steps to make it reasonably easy. Once I do that, I'll officially "release" the release. --Tom _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
