http://www.greenstone.org/blog News and Posts from the Greenstone Team Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:02:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Continued on the problem that I thought had been almost resolved last week: getting the batch files in GS2 to handle not only spaces but also brackets in the Greenstone filepaths. The batch files were done, but the perl code needed some correcting too. After inspecting many files ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-12-02/anus-entry-for-the-week-ending-2-dec-2011/ For the last two weeks, I was mainly learning the practical side of how to handle the Greenstone translations. Mainly how to generate the spreadsheets for translators to use, though there was also the opportunity for learning to handle translated spreadsheets. Next to that, there were some questions on the ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-11-28/anus-entry-for-week-ending-25-nov-2011/ As several people had encountered issues in the recent 2.85 release, a lot of this week was spent looking at them so that we can get 2.86 out as soon as possible. The bugs and oversights are not fatal and work-arounds are possible: 1) If you don't have the PDF-box extension for ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-11-11/anus-blog-entry-for-the-week-ending-11-nov-2011/ At last, we did it. After a lot of testing, bug discovery and fixing, we've finally released Greenstone 2.85. It should be much improved from 2.84. There were also some last minute changes from release candidate version 2. Please do grab a binary for your operating system by visiting the download ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-11-04/official-greenstone-285-released/ There was a lot of testing going on in the last 2 months, and I forgot all about writing blog entries. The first stage of testing was to go through the Greenstone tutorials on Windows (Vista), Linux (Ubuntu) and Mac (Leopard). Some bugs were discovered and fixed, and after that RC1 ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-10-28/greenstone-285rc2-release-candidate-2-released/ Those who are eagerly awaiting the release of the final version of 2.85 will not have to wait much longer. Anu has been working hard testing it on each of the platforms we support and for the most part things are looking good. Any assistance in testing is always greatly ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-10-03/sams-greenstone-blog-3102011/ Hello again, sorry about the big delay between posts, things have been pretty busy here recently and remembering to write this often slips my mind. We've released our first release candidate for 2.85 so please try it out and let us know if there are any issues. You can find it ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-09-26/sams-greenstone-blog-2692011/ It's been about 4 weeks since I wrote an entry. In the meantime we've been tidying up the last of the To Do list items for the upcoming GS2 release and several of the To Do list items for the GS3 release. Sam is now hard working on the GS3 ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-08-26/anus-entry-for-the-month-of-aug-2011/ Last week started off with requiring fixes to a bug introduced during recent GS3 code changes: suddenly metadata and titles were no longer being retrieved for normal search and browse operations. Then Sam's recent improvement to GS3's GLI by starting the tomcat server upon GLI startup was expanded to also ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-08-01/anus-entry-for-25-29-july/ It's been a while since I last wrote, so I'll fill you all in on what has been happening. We have been working fairly solidly on some improvements for 2.85. One thing we have been aiming to do is improve the use of PDF files with complex embedded metadata. We have ... http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2011-07-27/sams-greenstone-blog-2772011/