Release: Camelbox 2009.167.2132Z-tahi
Brian Manning
(June 16th, 2009). This is the second release in the 'tahi' (2009.1)
release series.
The big change for this release...
SHORTCUTS!
There are now shortcuts available for commonly used programs and
applications, demo scripts, documentation, tutorials, and support
websites. You can see a screenshot of the shortcut menu with Camelbox
shortcuts installed at [1]. Poke around the menus and see what neat
and interesting things you can find.
Start -> Programs -> Camelbox
There's also an option on the "Choose HTTP Server" screen to open up
these release notes in a browser after the install has completed. It's
the 2nd checkbox on that screen, below "Keep downloaded archives".
The SQLite -dev package was missing in the previous 'tahi' release.
This has been fixed.
Upgrade recommendation: Upgrading is recommended only if you want to
pick up new features or applications, however please see the next
paragraph if you only want to pick up the new shortcuts and links
feature. Older releases ("2008.304.07242Z-odin" and older) WILL
REQUIRE uninstallation before installing this version.
If you have previously installed the '2009.141.0110Z-tahi' release,
and you just want to pick up the new shortcuts, run this version of
the installer, and when you get to the 'install types' dialog, choose
"The Vapourware". The 'install types' dialog has the words
"Installation Options" in the titlebar, and has a dropdown box that
lets you choose specific install types, or Custom if you start
mixing/matching packages. The 'Vapourware' install type won't install
any packages, however, it does run through your existing installation
and create shortcuts to applications/demos/scripts/docs/websites as it
finds them. This means that things you have not installed will not
have a shortcut created for them. You can select what's installed as
far as shortcuts and links by scrolling to the bottom of the install
types screen, and choosing from the options listed in the section
marked "Camelbox Environment". Running a Vapourware install to pick up
shortcuts and links MAY also work on older releases of Camelbox, but
the only release I've tested it on is 'tahi' releases.
Note that both the PostgreSQL and MySQL command line clients will
require a hostname to connect to in order to run; just clicking on the
shortcut icons will not work, without a hostname the Command Prompt
window will just open and close, and if you're lucky, you'll see the
error about missing a host to connect to. In order to use these
shortcuts, you will need to modify the shortcut with the proper
command switch so the clients know which host to try and connect to
when they are run. The SQLite3 command line client will run without
specifying a database first, so it will open up and run automagically
when you click on the shortcut.
If you are using DBD::ODBC, please be advised that the upstream author
has fixed a major buffer overflow bug with UTF-16 text, and has
recommended upgrading to version 1.22. You can use the CPAN module to
pick up this upgrade after installing Camelbox. The original warning
was posted on the dbi-users mailing list [2]. Steps for upgrading via
CPAN:
perl -MCPAN -e shell
upgrade DBD::ODBC
For details about specific C library/Perl module versions, please see
the _versions.txt file tagged in SVN at [3]. This file is also now
installed as C:\camelbox\share\pkglists\_version_list.txt after you
perform an install of Camelbox on your machine. This contains an
up-to-date list of major Perl modules and C libraries that were used
for this build of Camelbox. This file will be updated for each major
release of Camelbox.
Also, all Camelbox packages now install a "package list" files to
C:\camelbox\share\pkglists\. If you're looking for a specific file or
module, you can use the grep command in that directory to search
through the lists of files. The package lists are automatically
generated and updated every time a new Camelbox package is created. At
some point in the future, there may be tools implemented to make the
process of searching these package lists easier.
For support with this software, feature requests, complaints, or ???,
please e-mail to the Camelbox mailing list at
came...@googlegroups.com. Links to the Camelbox Homepage [4] and
Camelbox Frequently Questioned Answers [5] are at the bottom of this
email.
Thanks,
Brian
For the statistically minded:
65 packages in 10 groups
Unpacked size: 455505092
Archived size: 75072784
Compression Ratio: 0.16
[1] http://tinyurl.com/m3sytn - Screenshot of Camelbox start menu
shortcuts in Windows XP
[2] http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.dbi.users/2009/06/msg34032.html
[3] http://code.google.com/p/camelbox/source/browse/tags/2009.167.2132Z-tahi/filelists/_version_list.txt
[4] http://code.google.com/p/camelbox/
[5] http://code.google.com/p/camelbox/wiki/FAQ