Topic: Which is under development...SME 6.5 or 7????

[kearnsy]

Hi All,

Excuse my ignorance but can someone tell me which is the current release that is being developed, V6.5 or V7?

Has the SME development split, or are they simply just working on two releases concurrently?

Is anyone else confused, or is it just me?

Thanks
Damien

[Buddha_Joe]

They are working on both..

[kearnsy]

Thanks for the reply...

Any particular reason for developing the 2 at the same time?

What are the differences, if any?

Damien

[Buddha_Joe]

Change log for contribs.org SME 6.5

http://no.longer.valid/news/article.php?storyid=38

I think the refrences to SME 7 have to do with Mitels version 7 alpha. Version 7 I belive is migrating from a red 7.x base to a centos (RHEL) based distro.

http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/New%20Development%20Announcements%20February%202005

Someone please correct me if I am mistaken.

[Reinhold]

SME 6.5, current status "RC2" Release Code2 is developed on RH7.3legacy (org. 2001/ -2)
- main programmer ShadLords's intention most likely was to "tighten up" some issues since RH7.x,8,even RH9 are out of RH support already)

SMESERVER 7.0, current status "alpha3" is developed on Centos 3.4 which is "the free" version of RedHeadEnterprise3.x (comment valid only for non lawyers !) (org. 2004/-5)
- main programmer Charlie Brady (MITEL/e-smith)'s "private" work edition is on the ibiblio developers download section. MITEL will not publish a new "unsupported" version as they have publically stated quite often. This version is alpha code, main intention obviously is to get SME to the year 2005. Release will supposedly contain Centos 4.0 /RHEL4.  ShadLords is also working on a Centos release at his home page.

IMO there is little to compare so here's my outlook:
"6.5" is patched up legacy code ... but good work from a dedicated developer (Thanks Shad)
"7.0" is alpha still but very promising, hopefully it will be the future of SMESERVER - running on new hardware (SATA) with a current kernel -  (Thanks Charlie)

From the above you may guess I am going to skip 6.5 (no need for me), have tested 7.0alpha3 quite successfully and hope to start using it with the next hardware I (privately) buy.

Regards
Reinhold

[chris burnat]

SME 6.5, current status "RC2" Release Code2 is developed on RH7.3legacy (org. 2001/ -2)

Hello Reinhold.  RC2?  Where did you find it? I thought we were still at RC1 level...  Regards, christian.  (PS thanks for info in other post).

[drywalldude]

Will  test anything to assist in this development, system is up and running in "server only " mode and I'm eager to assist in this all worthy cause.

screenshot : http://www.ericswww.com/rpm_bay/screenshots/sme_7_screenshot.PNG

by the way I am also trying to spike some interest in this post as well as I think developement in this would be worthwhile : http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=22878.0

Thanks to everyone that keeps this site a passion!!

[jeroenm]

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[wellsi]

From the comments on the mailing lists my interpretation is slightly different. (this is only my  personal interpretation)

Shad's 6.5 is the next logical step, still based on RH7.3

Charlie's 7.0alpha is CentOS3.4 based and he will remain based on CentOS3.4 for the current time.

Shad is working towards SME on CentOS4 - People are calling this 7.

So at the moment you could consider that there are three development strands:
Maintaining the reliable RH7.3 based codebase
Moving forward to CentOS3.4
Moving forward to CentOS4

The picture is a little confusing as there is no clear roadmap - the changes ongoing at the moment will hopefully clarify this.

There exists a body of people wanting to help move SME to be CentOS4 based but this is not a co-ordinated effort - yet.

[ejfowler]

Along the lines of "the only stupid question is the one not asked", why base the next generation of SME on CentOS? Why not base it on RHEL4 itself? Red Hat is a stable, growing company with a stable of talented developers, and support from a large community of enthusiasts (Fedora). RHEL4 is at the start of a 5-year support cycle. Red Hat publishes the source code, is this not enough? They also allow redistribution of binaries without copyrighted artwork. Since the SME Server doesn't have a GUI, this shouldn't be a problem, right?

Eric

[CharlieBrady]

Along the lines of "the only stupid question is the one not asked", why base the next generation of SME on CentOS? Why not base it on RHEL4 itself?

Because we don't want to compile all those binaries, after doing all the work necessary to remove RedHat trademarks. Someone else is already doing that for us (CentOS), so why should we bother? More work, zero return.