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+status of OpenIsis development
+
+
+* stable version
+Version 0.8.6 marks the first version of OpenIsis
+to contain basic implementations of all major features
+required for web based publishing of catalogues:
+
+- simple queries as typically composed by web search forms
+- basic formatting (field access and modes) with detailled
+ rendering left to the web frontend code (JSP, PHP ...)
+
+All features present in 0.8.6 are and will be supported
+with the same syntax.
+In most situations you should use the most recent version,
+but not rely on the new features.
+If in doubt, please contact us.
+
+
+*devel developer version: use with caution!
+Since summer 2002 we are developing the various 0.8.7.x versions.
+They include
+
+- writing capability
+- new B-L-Tree index
+- server side sessions
+- threadsafe buffered IO
+- preliminary Tcl binding
+- XML conversion
+
+Most new features where planned carefully and prepared by a
+lot of paperwork.
+However, as long as the number is 0.8.7.*, all features introduced
+since 0.8.6 are considered experimental and might still need to be changed.
+
+So before you are going to base a lot of new work on these features,
+it's recommended that you contact us in order to learn
+detailled up-to-date status.
+
+Update: as of March 03, we have the core of a multi-threaded
+server engine (request dispatcher, session handling) running,
+a Tcl/Tk GUI demo using TSPs (Tcl Server Pages) and Java code
+to convert to/from XML.
+While basically all is as planned, we may remove the Sessions
+from the API before blessing it 0.8.8.
+
+Update: as of April 03, Version 0.8.7.5 is the last to contain
+all that devel stuff. Version 0.8.8 will have explicit
+passing of Session removed, i.e. change the API.
+
+
+* plans for 2003
+ (... not necessarily in exactly that order)
+
+- within short, the new index should support immediate update
+ (DONE) based on basic formatting (TODO)
+- by end of winter, a local implementation of the server interface
+ should be basis for a first Tk based GUI (Demo DONE)
+- in spring, a single threaded but multi-session server with
+ GUI client should give proof of all those concepts,
+ marked by version 0.9 (Tests DONE)
+- during summer, the server should actually run multithreaded
+ and Java, Perl and PHP will get a client binding
+- once the formatting has gotten a complete overhaul,
+ we may consider OpenIsis "grown-up" and put version 1.0
+ under the christmas tree
+
+... ToDo
+
+---
+ $Id: Status.txt,v 1.5 2003/04/07 16:15:50 kripke Exp $
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