Closer and closer to Typo 4.0, and a call for testers.

We made a lot of progress this weekend on Typo. We’re down to 9 open tickets, and several of those aren’t really code issues–things like “set up a Typo blog on http://typosphere.org” (which is mostly done, actually). There are a few bugs left, and one or two minor development points, but at this point the thing we really need most is some testing. If you use Typo, then I’d love it if you could either test the latest trunk or the latest .gem release (sudo gem install typo; typo install /some/path) and file bugs.

Posted by Scott Laird Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:56:07 GMT

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  1. Bob Aman about 6 hours later:

    I updated to the latest version and your fixes worked like a charm. Typo’s back to being stable again.

  2. Joe Homs about 7 hours later:

    Hey Scott, I’m one of the typogardeners over at typogarden.org. I just added a post to help you get the word out. Great work on Typo, it is running like a charm for me.

  3. Chris about 11 hours later:
    I had to update some dependencies on my VPS to install and finally got it there. However, when running the included tests, it’s dumping. I don’t know if it’s my server, installation or what … never happened before though. What’s funny is that I’m getting different errors/segfaults each time I run ‘rake tests’. Here’s the least of the errors reported: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.1.0/lib/sqlite3/errors.rb:94:in `check’: cannot rollback - no transaction is active (SQLite3::SQLException) I’ll try updating my sqlite (version 3 is installed … but may be stale).
  4. sfong about 13 hours later:

    I used the auto-installer by site5.com, how do I upgrade to typo 4.0 if I know nothing about rails and gem etc?

  5. sly about 19 hours later:

    updated my trunk, but the admin interface is not what I expected. I like the old style better than the new one, but thats just my opinion though.

  6. Jochem Kossen about 21 hours later:

    On my OpenBSD installation, with typo 3.99.3 installed using gem install typo, after typo install, permissions on public/dispatch*cgi are set to non-executable, while they should be executable, I’m using the Apache server included in OpenBSD base.

    Other than that, things seem to be working fine. And i quite like the new scribble theme :-)

  7. Scott Laird about 23 hours later:

    Oops, I just noticed the same thing on some files on Linux. The next version will fix permissions.

  8. kogent 1 day later:

    I’m running most current version of Typo. I’ll report bugs as I find them (hopefully they’ll be bugs that you created ;-P)

    M<><

  9. Ed 1 day later:

    Installed typo from the 3.99.3 gem on windows. It worked fine.

  10. roberhahn 2 days later:

    Is there any documentation for upgrading from 2.6.0? I ask because when I checked out recent build from svn (like, last week or so) and rake tested it, I discovered that there seems to have been some significant DB schema changes. I’m curious to know how to bring my old content into the new system b/c of that.

  11. Scott Laird 2 days later:

    roberhan: In general, the process is:

    1. Back up your DB.
    2. Install the new version of Typo.
    3. Run ‘RAILS_ENV=production rake migrate’
    4. Restart your Typo process(es) and test that everything works.
  12. roberthahn 2 days later:

    Scott, thanks for the info. If I have time tonight then, I’ll take out a 3.99.x version for a spin.

  13. Jökull 2 days later:

    Really looking forward to 4.0