OK, I’ve been working on polishing up MachCMS 1.0 for release. It’s going to be great. I don’t care if nobody else uses it but I know it will be of great value to me. And this is the first time I released a piece of software that I can actually really make good use of. 
Well it’s not released yet but soon will be.
So when will it come out? Simple answer: When it’s done. Long complicated answer that doesn’t make sense: The first half of August.
Most of the code is written. Basically it needs to go through some more testing and real world use.
The main thing that needs to be done yet is write some good documentation for installation, configuration/customization, and usage.
It’s not difficult but it would be if not documented.
MachCMS 1.0 will require PHP 5.0.0 or later with PDO installed. PHP 5.1.0 or later is good too when it’s released
Right after v1.0 is out, I’m going to make a PHP 4 version. Why? Because some crazy people still use it that’s why. Including a server I want to use MC on.
The php4 version will use it’s own custom database system, only the code that has to be changed will be changed or rewritten as needed.
Also I want to release a Mac OS X package and so it needs to be php4 compatible for that.
The php4 version will be maintained as a branch beside the main head. It will probably slip back a release or two sometimes just to provoke people to upgrade to php5.
So anyway the main thing that needs to be done is write docs. My next post will hopefully be announcing it’s release.
