Re: More Perl 808iliciousness

[mike808@users.sourceforge.net]

> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:29:25AM +0000, mike808@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> > Also, the new RT 3.0 beta 2 is out. http://bestpractical.com/pub/rt/
> 
> Got a changelog?

From http://www.bestpractical.com/releases/pr3.html

The Beta2 is in the devel tracks and was announced on use.perl.org.

Selected Improvements since RT 2.0

* RT's installation process has been streamlined and the installation process 
  now uses autoconf (./configure) to build your Makefile
* Keywords have been replaced with a much more flexible "Custom Fields" 
  system that allows fulltext custom fields
* RT is now unicode-native and has been completely internationalized (It 
  speaks about a dozen languages, with varying levels of fluency. New 
  translations are always appreciated)
* The UI has gotten a massive overhaul. RT should be prettier, friendlier and 
  easier to use. And it works even better in lynx, as most of the user 
  interface now uses Cascading Style Sheets for the pretty bits.
* RT is even more extensible than it was before. In addition to the "local" 
  directory for overriding HTML::Mason components, RT's web UI now supports 
  callbacks, to let you embed your own components within RT's UI with no 
  changes to the core, an "overlay" system for the configuration file, so 
  you can be assured that you always know what you've changed from the 
  defaults and "Overlay" perl modules that let you override most of RT's core 
  at the subroutine level in a way that will persist across upgrades
* RT's database schema has been simplified. The "Watchers" mechanism has been 
  replaced with queue and ticket specific role groups, which should lead to 
  much faster ticket searches and more linear scalability.
* RT's notion of groups has been significantly enhanced. Groups can now 
  contain other groups, with as deep a hierarchy as you want, so long as you 
  don't try to make a group a member of itself. ;)
* RT's ACL system is now much more flexible. Users who have been granted the 
  right to delegeate their rights can give groups of users of their choosing 
  any right they have been granted. Of course, when you revoke a user's rights, 
  any of their delegations vanish too.
* RT's mail gateway now uses an HTTP-based RPC mechanism to talk to your RT 
  server. (The mail gateway is now a tiny perl script that doesn't need to 
  live on your RT server, run setgid or anything nasty like that.)

Mike808/

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