Forum: Typo [ANN] Typo 6.0 "Irving Penn" for Rails 3

Good evening,

I'm not sure someone else than me is still reading this list, but I've 
been posting release announcement there for 4 years now and I won't 
easily lose a so good habbit.

After 7 months of work, the 6.0.1 "Irving Penn" release of Typo is 
finally available. This major version of our application is not only 
about upgrading to Rails 3. It also bring the usual quota of bug fixes 
and improvements.

You can download Typo 6.0 as a zip archive 
(http://typosphere.org/stable.zip) or as a tarball 
(http://typosphere.org/stable.tgz), or just try our online demo at 
http://demo.typosphere.org.

Upgrading to Rails 3 was a long and difficult path. Typo was born when 
Rails was very very young. We sometimes had to chose some ways to do 
things while Rails would chose a totally different way to fix its lacks. 
Typo 6.0 is only a first Rails 3 compatible version, and were still 
planning to ditch the remaining piece of antiquities we're still 
carrying.

* Good bye gem and installer
Typo installer has been around for 6 years now. When Rails 1.0 was 
released, it really looked like a good idea. Unfortunately it quicly 
became an abandonned blotware. Since then, lots of easy way of deploying 
a Rails application came, mostly thanks to Passenger and Bundler. That's 
the reason why we have decided to drop it. Installing Typo is now easy 
as, lets say, installing any other mainstream blogging engine: fill in 
your database credential, run bundle and youre done.

* Finally a real plugin API
Thomas Lecavelier did a wonderful job working on whats going to be the 
real plugin API weve dreamt of for a while now. He started with making 
avatar provider pluggable and knows how much he still has to be done. 
Good news as hes the latest addition to Typo core team. Were really glad 
to welcome him onboard.

* Admin, SEO and usability
Weve made some SEO improvement, adding a bit more options, and making 
tags URL really SEO friendly. Admin usability has been improved to, but 
weve many other things we want to make better as well.


* Theme changes
Theme structure has been change to be compliant with Rails views 
structure. If youre using a custom template, youll have to move the 
layouts folder into the views one. Nothing you cant handle.

* Bug fixes
As usual, we have fixed a bunch of bugs, Typo 6.0.1 being a real bugfix 
release. Please, read our complete changelog about this.

We're now going to work on a 6.1 version bringing you new feature.

All the best,
Frdric, Matijs, Cyril and Thomas

--
Frdric de Villamil
"What's mine is mine. What's yours is still unsetteled"  Go player 
proverb
frederic@de-villamil.com                        tel: +33 (0)6 62 19 1337
http://t37.net                       Typo : http://typosphere.org

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:25:23 +0100
de Villamil Frédéric <frederic@de-villamil.com> wrote:

> Good evening,
>
> I'm not sure someone else than me is still reading this list

Good job ;)

//DP

Yes - thanks for all the hard work.  I'm pretty happy with the latest 5x
release but will take a look.

2011/1/21 de Villamil Frédéric <frederic@de-villamil.com>

Still reading! Thanks to all for the diligent work.

I assume this implies Ruby 1.9.2 compatible too?

Unfortunately not yet. Ruby 1.9 compatibility is the next big thing on 
our TODO.

I will tell you as soon as we have something useable. You can also 
submit patches too ;-)

Best regards
Fred


Le 24 janv. 2011  17:38, Perry Smith a crit :

>> You can download Typo 6.0 as a zip archive (http://typosphere.org/stable.zip) 
or as a tarball (http://typosphere.org/stable.tgz), or just try our online demo at 
http://demo.typosphere.org.
>> Weve made some SEO improvement, adding a bit more options, and making tags URL 
really SEO friendly. Admin usability has been improved to, but weve many other 
things we want to make better as well.
>> All the best,
>> Typo-list@rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list
>
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> Typo-list mailing list
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--
Frdric de Villamil
"What's mine is mine. What's yours is still unsetteled"  Go player 
proverb
frederic@de-villamil.com                        tel: +33 (0)6 62 19 1337
http://t37.net                       Typo : http://typosphere.org

With rvm, I could probably get this to work using 1.8.  I assume the 
preferred is the latest Ruby at 1.8 -- is it 1.8.7?