If you download and install the most current Chandler, there’s a lot you won’t see. Here’s a peek under the hood at three core infrastructure components we’ve got going.
Core email functionality has been enabled by the integration of the
Twisted networking libraries. Downloading email from multiple IMAP accounts works and was demoed by Brian Kirsch, who did the work, at a recent staff meeting.
The PyLucene full-text indexing engine which Andi Vajda worked on, has been integrated for some time but it is also not hooked up either to the repository or the UI yet. We’ve also made PyLucene its own separate open source project.
Last week, Heikki Toivonen integrated OpenSSL and M2crypto libraries. Chandler can create X.509 certificates which will be used as part user authentication.
Twisted, Lucene (which is the basis of PyLucene), and OpenSSL are all well-established open source projects we are building on top of.
Email functionality will be to appear in the UI in the 0.4 release, about which I will be saying more shortly.
Posted by mitch@osafoundation.org at July 06, 2004 03:55 PMMitch, what's your recommendation on using this version?
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Posted by: Adam Hertz at July 6, 2004 04:19 PM
My recommendation is there won't be anything worth using until 0.4 at the earliest - October.
Posted by: Mitch Kapor at July 6, 2004 04:20 PM
Have you considered supporting Kerberos authentication? Kerberos is used in many higher education setting and was developed at MIT. More info at http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/.
-- Al
Posted by: Albert Willis at July 6, 2004 10:12 PM
Kerberos support will come in the Westwood (2.0) version.
Posted by: Mitch Kapor at July 7, 2004 01:28 PM
I'm really glad they are addressing the security issues with the Chandler!
Posted by: Matt Theron at July 11, 2004 06:48 PM