This is the first significant release of DMO for nearly two years. It works with Linux and Windows (XAMPP), but should work well with any LAMP stack including PHP4. New features include much more graphical viewing, as well as mapping objects onto maps with drill-down to additional layers of maps following dependency trails, a new Flash viewer for browsing through objects, and the ability to create chains of objects based on any attribute type (where any other object can be an attribute of any other object).
Small bugfixes and a database change were made.
There was a packaging error in release 2.2beta,
which this release corrects. Alternatively, this
error can be corrected in the old release by
applying a database change and replacing the
invalid file, DMO_definition.php.
The documentation was updated. A new feature was
added to prepare graphs of dependencies and
instance children, based on the GraphViz software,
which should be installed as a prerequsite for
this capability. There are no database changes in
this release.
This release has been tested under Windows, using XAMPP for Windows as the basis. It includes the scripts customized for Windows, as well as a batch file to aid with installation. In addition, the documentation is now 70% complete. The documentation is now available in a separate file (you don't need to download this as well if you download the main package.) Packaging has been changed: for Windows users, there is both a .tar.gz and .zip version (these are identical.)
This is a major new release of DMO, which makes it
much easier to install. XAMPP is used to provide
the LAMP environment required. A major overhaul
was done in the past two years, adding access
restrictions (user/group model), inheritance,
DocBook XML documentation, greatly extended
instance attributes, support for XML and CSV
import/export, the availability of commercial
support, and inline images.
