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Date: 8/23/2007 2:11 pm · Subject: WRE 0.8 Technology Preview · Rating: 16
WRE 0.8 is finished and is now in testing. The Windows version is putting up a bit of a fight due to paths using \ instead of /, but that should be conquered shortly as well. As we proceed with WRE development, starting with WRE 0.8 there will be very little detectable difference between releases on different platforms. That includes Windows. I can't promise that it will perform the same. Windows will always probably be slower than unix based platforms, but the feature set should be the same, or 99% the same. In addition, Windows releases will come out at the same time as Unix releases going forward. While we're kicking the last remaining bugs out of the Windows release, we'd like to offer some builds for you to play with in your local environments. This is strictly for a dev or testing environment, and should not be used in production at this point. At this url you can download the technology preview release: http://www.plainblack.com/downloads/builds/wre/ There you can find builds for the following platforms: - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5
- Ubuntu Server 6
- FreeBSD 6.2
- Mac OSX 10.4 (ppc and intel)
- Source - so you can compile it yourself
Going forward, in addition to Windows, we'll be supporting all of the above listed platforms. Mac/PPC will likely be phased out in the next 12 to 24 months as Apple is no longer selling that hardware, and their next operating system is not going to support it either. If you do decide to play around with this early release please reply to this thread to let us know what you think. Also please report any bugs you find in the bug tracker. We'll make sure to get them fixed before the final release. Inevitably the next question I'm going to get is "When will this come out as a stable version?" To that all I can say is sometime before the WUC (webgui.org/wuc). We want to make sure this release is as stable as possible before releasing it. To that end we'll be testing it on plainblack.com for a while before we release it to the public, per our "eat our own dogfood" policy.
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