Jeepers, no posts for 3+ months and then two in one day! The truth is that I hadn’t realized the last post was still sitting in my drafts folder more than a month after I wrote it.

Moving on…

A number of folks have been interested in installing the Registry, especially since we’ve talked before about ‘easy installation’ being one of our design goals.

We’re pleased to announce that we have finally tweaked things to make a reasonably simple install from our subversion repository possible and provided some hopefully simple instructions detailing how to get the Registry up and running. We don’t provide enough tweaking or instructions (yet) to fully customize the interface, so once it’s installed it’ll still look exactly like the Registry, just running on your server instead of ours.

Whenever we update the production server, we’ll tag that code in subversion and update the link in the instructions (tying a string around my finger to help me remember as we speak), but there won’t be any other ‘release’ announcement unless we do something major.

Whenever we modify the database structure, we’ll provide a sql script to alter the database with each release. These scripts will always modify the database as it was after the previous release, so if you skip releases you’ll need to run the scripts sequentially. But this will all be on the instructions page.

We expect to update the production code quite often over the next few months.