[MOBY-dev] An update on moby Central

[mark wilkinson]

As you know, we're trying to move Moby Central to a new (faster!!) server at the SUN Centre of Excellence in Calgary (headed by Christoph Sensen, Paul Gordon's PhD supervisor).  The migration is turning out to be extremely troublesome, largely due to our dependence on the libxml2 libraries.  This is unfortunate... It likely means that moby central will be difficult to install for many people... But I'm sure it will be worth the trouble, since it will be on a dedicated 64bit server with high connectivity, compared to the server it is on now which seems to have terrible connectivity problems for everyone except me ;-)

Eddie s well along in making a CPAN release of Moby, and Wendy is well along in working on the multi-lingual problem (we're trying to be compatible with every mysql down to Mysql version 3)

So there is progress on the milestones from the last developers meeting!

I believe that Eddie has also completed a pure-perl implementation of all Moby Central code, so we won't have the urrent chaotic mixture of Tomcat and Apache dependencies.

Progress!

M


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