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This is a beta release of OpenACS 4.5. This release has been subjected to an organized test effort, but please bear in mind that we are still in the process of developing testing tools, methodology, and scripts.
Please report bugs using our Software Development Manager at the OpenACS website. The latest information on installing this alpha release under Oracle 8.1.6/7 or PostgreSQL 7.1.* can be found there as well. Currently the toolkit will not install under Oracle 9i due to Oracle having made "delete" an illegal name for PL/SQL procedures and functions.
You may want to begin by reading our installation documentation for Installing on Unix/Linux or Installing on Windows. Note that the Windows documentation is not current for OpenACS 4.5, but an alternative is to use John Sequeira's Oasis VM project.
After installation, the full documentation set can be found by visiting http://[your-host]/doc. Not all pieces are updated for OpenACS 4.5 at this moment.
If you're using Oracle 8.1.6 or 8.1.7 Enterprise Edition you may want to uncomment the SQL that causes InterMedia to keep online searching online while indexing. The feature doesn't exist in Standard Edition and OpenACS 4.5 now defaults to being loadable in SE. Just grep for 'sync' to find the code.
Also be sure to read the documentation in the Site Wide Search package's sql/oracle directory. The APM doesn't execute the SQL for this package, in part due to the fact that some steps need to be run as the Oracle user 'ctxsys'.
If you're using PostgreSQL be sure to read the documentation on installing the Open FTS driver for OpenACS. It's included in the package as a text file and is also summarized at the end of the installation documentation in the section, Set Up OpenFTS. As with the Oracle version, there are steps you must take manually in order to get this feature working.
Here are some notes from our testing group. While not quite up to date it should give you some ideas of where things stand.
Summarised Testing Status Skin Minimal Release w/caution Comments: Package: Page Test Coverage: Minimal Release w/caution Comments: Package: Bboard Test Coverage: Reasonable Suggested Status: Alpha Comments: Package: Static Pages Test Coverage: Minimal Suggested Status: Release w/caution Comments: Package: Ticket Tracker Test Coverage: Reasonable Suggested Status: Alpha Comments: Don tested personally Package: Ticket Tracker Lite Test Coverage: Unknown Suggested Status: Comments: Package: Acs-lang Test Coverage: Reasonable Suggested Status: Alpha Comments: Oracle only Package: Simple-survey Test Coverage: Reasonable Suggested Status: Alpha Comments: Package: Portal Test Coverage: Extensive Suggested Status: Alpha Comments: Package: Notes Test Coverage: Extensive Suggested Status: Alpha Comments: Package: Bookmarks Test Coverage: Extensive Suggested Status: Alpha Comments: Package: Clickthrough Test Coverage: Extensive Suggested Status: Alpha Comments: Package: Acs-mail Test Coverage: Reasonable Suggested Status: Release w/caution Comments: Package: Acs-messaging Test Coverage: Reasonable Suggested Status: Release w/caution Comments: Package: File manager Test Coverage: Minimal Suggested Status: Release w/caution Comments: Package: File Storage Test Coverage: Minimal Suggested Status: Release w/caution Comments: Package: Site-wide-search Test Coverage: Minimal Suggested Status: Release w/caution Comments: Package: General Comments Test Coverage: Extensive Suggested Status: Alpha Comments: Package: Acs-events Test Coverage: None Suggested Status: Comments: Automated Testing Package: Acs-datetime Test Coverage: None Suggested Status: Comments: Automated Testing Package: Acs-tcl Test Coverage: Reasonable Suggested Status: Release w/caution Comments: Automated Testing Package: Acs-templating Test Coverage: Reasonable Suggested Status: Release w/caution Comments: Automated Testing Package: Acs-util Test Coverage: Reasonable Suggested Status: Release w/caution Comments: Automated Testing Package: Acs-Content-repository Test Coverage: Minimal Suggested Status: Release w/caution Comments: Automated Testing Package: Acs-content Test Coverage: Minimal Suggested Status: Release w/caution Comments: Automated Testing Package: Acs-kernel Test Coverage: Reasonable Suggested Status: Alpha Comments: Automated Testing Package: Acs-subsite Test Coverage: Reasonable Suggested Status: Alpha Comments: Package: Acs-bootstrap-installer Test Coverage: Extensive Suggested Status: Alpha Comments: Developers have used this extensively Package: Acs-api-browser Test Coverage: Minimal Suggested Status: Release w/caution Comments: Automated Testing Package: Acs-workflow Test Coverage: Minimal Suggested Status: Release w/caution Comments: Package: calendar Test Coverage: Minimal Suggested Status: Alpha Comments: Don tested personally