[LON-CAPA-admin] New major release 2.0.0

[Martin Siegert]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:28:56PM -0400, Guy Albertelli II wrote:
> New Version 2.0.0 Released
> 
> 
> Notable Changes:
> - things should be faster
> - lots of documentation updates
> - /etc/init.d/loncontrol reload (tells lonc & lond to reread hosts.tab)
> - internal caching updates faster 
> - bridge tasks
> - What's New page for Course Coordinators
> - SPRS is faster
> - Cut, Copy, and Paste items in DOCS
> - new tags <chem> <num> <parse> <algebra> ease display of data
> - score upload allows more formats and upload by ID
> - IMS import of WebCT 4
> - New Role 'Assistant Author' for authors that shouldn't have access to 
>     anything outside of CSTR
> - PARM screens has been reorganized and made easier to use
> - DOCS has ability to recover from accidental resource removal
> - ability to automate course creation
> - format a number to n significant figures 
> - scantron support of number and letter formats
> - scantron support of numerical CODES and of lengths other than 6
> - <m> tag output configurable and authors can optionally force the
>    use of a specific display mechanism
> - display partially correct problems improved
> - trackstudent can now show full student history
> - public browsing users can now interact with all types of problems
> - IMS export enabled 
> - Upload of HTML files to DOCS prompts for embedded images, objects etc.
> - lots of bugfixes
> 
> 
> To install this update:
> 
> 1) You will need to be running Fedora Core 2 or 3 or 4, RHEL ES 4, Suse 9.2
>    (SuSE 9.3, and SLES 9 support is coming soon.)

We are currently running SuSE-9.1.
In oder to get loncapa working under SuSE 9.1 I compiled about 30 packages
(e.g., apache-1.3.28) that loncapa requires but are not included with
SuSE-9.1.
Since loncapa-2.0.0 is will work with SuSE-9.2 the plan is to upgrade
to SuSE-9.2 first and then upgrade to loncapa-2.0.0. However, upgrading
to SuSE-9.2 creates a problem: the perl versions conflict, thus I have
to uninstall all those 30 packages that I compiled for SuSE-9.1.

The question is: has somebody compiled all those extra packages that
loncapa-2.0.0 requires already for SuSE-9.2? If yes, where can I get
them? It would be much, much easier to install these together with
the upgrade to SuSE-9.2 installing all of them first only to reinstall
them later.

Cheers,
Martin