Simple Groupware 0.1 released - December 13, 2004

Simple Groupware 0.1 released - December 13, 2004

Today Simple Groupware 0.1 has been released and is available for download at: (Comments, hints, wishes, appreciations, etc. are welcome!)

Download Simple Groupware 0.1

After 15 months of design and development today the first release of Simple Groupware is ready for download. The first edition looks pretty small (10 000 lines of new code + 80 000 lines of contributed code) but is already rich in functionality:

  • Simple Groupware already includes 40 modules (e.g. Contacts, Projects, Todos, Inventory, etc., 14 used by the system, 23 web applications and 3 modules for data integration) written in sgsML.
  • In addition version 0.1 has full language support (including charsets, date formats) and includes translations for English and German, other languages can be immediately added.
  • To make life a bit easier I also provided an installation-manual helping with the setup of Apache / PHP / MySQL under Win32. So I hope everybody is able to do the installation (if not, please mail me).
    (Maybe an Xampp package can be provided in the future)
  • If you're not quite sure if Simple Groupware runs with your environment, take a deeper look at the requirements.
  • The new language sgsML (used for rapid web application development) has received its first manual (pretty small, only 10 pages). In the first edition all generic types are supported (strings, dates, files, html-, wiki-, text-editors). To make the start a bit easier a small library with 50 useful functions for data validation, modification and selection is also included.


Please give as much Feedback as possible.


Documentation:


Release notes:

  • This release is not suitable for usage in a production environment
  • This release doesn't contain a rights management system
    Therefore anonymous users will have full administrative rights (e.g. create new users, groups)
  • PHP-compatibility:
    When using PHP 4.3.10 or a higher 4.x.x version you need to patch ./setup.php, line 46:

    replace:
    if ((int)str_replace(".","",substr(PHP_VERSION,0,5)) < (int)str_replace(".","",$phpversion)) setup_error(sprintf("{t}Setup needs php with at least version %s !{/t}",$phpversion));

    with:
    // if ((int)str_replace(".","",substr(PHP_VERSION,0,5)) < (int)str_replace(".","",$phpversion)) setup_error(sprintf("{t}Setup needs php with at least version %s !{/t}",$phpversion));
  • MySQL-compatibility:
    Mysql 5.0.2-alpha will not work with Simple Groupware: The database crashes when launching the Simple Groupware Setup. (4.0.x and 4.1.x work without any problems)