Hi, We're in the beginning stages of redesigning many aspects of the OpenSA web server, the included modules and the documentation. One of the primary reasons for this is enabling the OpenSA web server for professional usage and enabling more people to profit from the power of the Apache web server, on which the OpenSA web server is based. The redesign will be a fundamental modification of the current release, therefor we invite everyone to comment on and influence the ongoing changes. OpenSA web server distribution ============================== Since the OpenSA web server continues to grow and includes more and more modules, the way the OpenSA web server is distributed in the future will be transformed into a system, which allows for easy addition of new modules and functions. To allow users to get their individual system up and running within short time, we'll split the distibution into a basic distibution, a documentation distribution and several module distributions. The basic distribution will include the Apache (current version is v1.3.14), mod_ssl (current version is 2.7.2) and OpenSSL (current version is 0.9.6). This will dramatically reduce download times and the package size. The module distibutions will include a single module along with it's documentation. Currently the following modules are ready for release and are in test usage at my company: o mod_asp o mod_ColdFusion o mod_dav o mod_JServ o mod_ssl o mod_php o mod_throttle o Tomcat Both the basic and the module distibrutions will be made available in compiled and in source form. OpenSA web server documentation =============================== The new documentation distribution will include the new OpenSA manual in several languages. At this point an english and a german version are planned. A proposal for the planned contents can be viewed online at http://www.opensa.org/manual/. Please comment on it. Within the next days the first parts of the manual will be published. OpenSA CVS repositories ======================= To reflect the above changes, the structure of the repositories on the project's cvs server (cvs.opensa.org) will be changed. The new structure will have these modules: o opensa This module contains the basic distribution. Apache 1.3.14, mod_ssl 2.7.2 and OpenSSL 0.9.6 have been checked in. AVAILABLE o installshield This module will contain all files required to create your own InstallShield release of the OpenSA web server. InstallShield 6.1 is used to create the OpenSA releases. NOT YET AVAILABLE o manual This module will contain the new OpenSA web server documentation. NOT YET AVAILABLE o modules This module will contain the available modules. The modules listed above are prepared for check-in, but require some changes due to the restructuring of the repositories and the upgrade to Apache 1.3.14. PARTLY AVAILABLE Let's get things started, Daniel S. Reichenbach -- This is The OpenSA Project's mailing list. For more information, please visit the project's web site at http://www.opensa.org To unsubscribe the list, send an empty email message to address [EMAIL PROTECTED]
