Midgard for Mac
Thanks to Jyrki Wahlstedt there is now a new way to install Midgard CMS on a Mac: DarwinPorts.
I’m now testing his packages and will update the installation instructions as soon as I’m done.
Updated 2006-04-21: I’ve got the DarwinPorts Midgard now running on my PowerBook G4. At first look, it is a lot faster than the Fink packages, possibly due to using MySQL 5.
Unfortunately the installation procedure is not as smooth as it could be, mostly because the PHP and Apache packages lack decent default configurations. I hope we’ll be able to resolve that later.
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Midgard: benefits of synchronized releases
From the Midgard Project: The Midgard Project switched to a new synchronized release model with the 8.09 "Ragnaroek LTS" release. Synchronized release model means that a major release of Midgard will happen every six months, tuned to be part of the larger Linux software ecosystem as described by Mark Shuttleworth: WHAT IF you knew that the next long-term supported releases...
Midgard to go Vala?
Cross-posting this to Planet GNOME, as it is sure to be interesting to the community there, especially as Midgard is becoming much more than just CMS: There is a project in works by me to rewrite Midgard’s core engine from plain C to Vala. Midgard 8.09’s code is taking huge use of GObject infrastructure and Vala is so good in...