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Archive for November, 2008
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Saturday, November 29th, 2008IzPack download stats: more than I expected!
Monday, November 24th, 2008It’s been a while since I last checked out the IzPack download stats. I have to say that Codehaus stats are somehow hard to get, and the scripts behind it are somehow unreliable
Thus, my mind stayed on the number of 15.000 downloads per month, which is already quite nice isn’t it?
Fortunately my friend Guillaume Laforge (aka Mr Groovy) sent me a nice script to parse the stats from Codehaus and get the most out of it. Of course it is written in Groovy 
As you can see, we do much better than 15.000 downloads, with a stunning record of 25.105 downloads in september!.
Thanks a lot to all of our IzPack users around the world
Nuxeo uses IzPack
Monday, November 24th, 2008
The innovative, French-based company called Nuxeo uses IzPack to distribute its ECM solutions!
Nuxeo 5 is an innovative, standards-based, open source platform for building ECM applications. Its component-based and service-oriented architecture makes it easy to customize and extend, making developers more efficient and ultimately, happier.
You can get the Nuxeo installers from their downloads page. Guys, keep up the good work!
Google should pay more attention to design
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008I am starting to get really puzzled about Google and design. Really.
I have always been a fan of their minimalistic interfaces. Part of their success is here by the way: they don’t use shadows, gradients and the likes… yet it looks good and clean.
If you are a heavy GMail user like me, you have probably seen that Google has just launched themes for GMail:
Some of the themes look good such as minimalist or new blue. However, most of the remaining themes really remind me of the early home pages of the end of 90’s: sunset, marina or phantasea to name a few. I have no clue on how people can actually do some email tasks with those themes and don’t even get a headache
I am really wondering if Google ever paid attention to design: the list of themes for Google Pages Creator or Google Sites is very small and only a few themes actually look good.
This is a real shame as they could easily pay a few designers or even some of their very own employes (yes, they have some really bright UI people…) to create some very clean and good looking themes for thoses services. I am pretty sure that I wouldn’t be the only one to appreciate such an effort isn’t it?
IzPack 4.1.1 released
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
I am reposting the news from our Confluence space at Codehaus:
On behalf of the IzPack project, I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of the version 4.1.1 of the project!
Many thanks to the developers and contributors for making this release possible!
IzPack is a one-stop solution for packaging, distributing and deploying applications.
It is fully cross-platform and generates a single installer. As such, it is an alternative to native solutions such as platform-specific installers and package managers.
IzPack-generated installers only require a Java virtual machine to run.
Many companies and projects have been using IzPack over the years.
IzPack version 4.1.1 is a maintenance release to the IzPack 4.1 branch that provides useful fixes. As a consequence, we advise our users to switch to this new release.
IzPack can be downloaded from http://izpack.org/ and is a member of Codehaus (see http://codehaus.org/).
Release Notes - IzPack - Version 4.1.1
Bug
* [IZPACK-107] - Creation of the uninstaller is still unconditional
* [IZPACK-172] - Unable to interpolate variable
* [IZPACK-175] - izpack2app runtime error
* [IZPACK-178] - Conditions on packs do not work properly
* [IZPACK-181] - In UserInputPanel the search field doesn’t substitute variables
* [IZPACK-189] - izpack2app.py fails with error “File exists”
* [IZPACK-192] - In UserPathPanel variables aren’t substituted
* [IZPACK-193] - HTMLInfoPanel does not show html filesImprovement
* [IZPACK-170] - Italian langpack update
New Feature
* [IZPACK-174] - Support for izpack2exe and izpack2app
Task
* [IZPACK-171] - Release izpack-standalone-4.1.0 to maven repository
* [IZPACK-180] - Update French LangPack
* [IZPACK-182] - Reformat Eng LangPack
I hope that you will enjoy this release!
Some new nice features will appear in the next major release (4.2.0), including the ability to elevate execution permissions and generating JNLP (Java Web Start) descriptors. Stay tuned!
