Previous in the Engine, we were using an non public released license named “Tuxxedo Open Source License v1″, which essentially were like the Ms-Pl license by Microsoft.
With the release of Engine 1.0.0 Alpha 2, we have changed this to the Apache 2.0 License for better availability among other frameworks and applications.
For more information about the Apache 2.0 license, have a look at it terms at:
Greetings
Engine Alpha 2 have just been tagged in SVN (r327) and the zip files are available for download at our Google code repository:
Our Github engine mirror will be updated within a few days to include the latest revision and downloads there too.
Documentation
Currently we have been focusing more on working on the actual code than a separate documentation project for the Engine, however every internal API class, function, constant etc. have associated docblocks explaining their purpose which we hope will work for now until the documentation is written.
Feedback
This second alpha have the namespaced code branch merged into it, and we might have introduced a few bugs for loading a few components. We tried our best to review all the code and make it work. Any bugs and feedback should be reported at our issue tracker at Google Code.
Next release
The next release is going to be Beta 1, and after that we will hopefully go into the Release Candidate stages. This means that the last major API changes will come within this beta if any. But with the namespace code in order, we hope this will all be very minimal.
Links
You are also welcome to follow both me (@Kalle_) and Ross (@RossMasters) on twitter, where we periodically tweet about development updates we are planning to work on or have just committed to the Engine source tree.
Strike the “Release Delay”, I worked all night to fix majority of the bugs we were having in the current trunk, and I’m down to the last item on the list before the Alpha 2 release.
I can reveal that Alpha 2 is converted to namespaces, requiring a modern version of PHP, 5.3.0+. The API itself havn’t changed much, a few new methods, and classes have been renamed, but more about all this in the real annoucement.
For those who want can’t wait and want to look at the implementation, then look no further than in the SVN repository at Google Code:
Greetings
I’m sorry to annouce that Engine Alpha 2 release will be delayed into September due to some unforseen issues with the namespace rewrite, which we are working on getting fixed and stabilized before the Alpha 2 release is out there.
For now I can tell you that the whole framework is converted into namespaces and contains some really nifty new stuff which I’m sure Ross will blog about in a coming blog post. I’m also in the middle of removing some deprecated features and decoupling core components more so they are much more usable.
You are free to checkout the current developments going on, over at Google Code:
Greetings
Engine Alpha 1 have just been tagged in SVN (r257) and the zip files are available for download at our Google code repository:
Our Github engine mirror will be updated within a few days to include the latest revision and downloads there too.
Documentation
Currently we have been focusing more on working on the actual code than a separate documentation project for the Engine, however every internal API class, function, constant etc. have associated docblocks explaining their purpose which we hope will work for now until the documentation is written.
Feedback
As this is the very first alpha, alot of things are going to change still while we write the documentation and publish it here at Tuxxedo.net. But we are very interested in your feedback on the Engine, from bug reports, feature/change request, almost even hate comments and other feedback that will support Engine.
Note, the namespaced code branch will be merged into one of the next alpha versions once Ross is done convertion all the API so it can be merged.
Next release
We hope to have completed the Alpha and Beta stages within a few weeks and aim for a Release Candidate / Final release sometime in September. We will update the blog here at Tuxxedo.net with updates for each release, including major changes and so fourth.
Links
You are also welcome to follow both me (@Kalle_) and Ross (@RossMasters) on twitter, where we periodically tweet about development updates we are planning to work on or have just committed to the Engine source tree.
