What is 0.5?

We released Chandler 0.5 on 29 March, 2005!

Purpose of Release

Chandler 0.5 focusses on building out some of the core calendaring functionality for supporting basic individual and collaborative calendaring tasks. In 0.5, you should be able to:

• Create, edit and delete calendar events.
• Navigate around the calendar in the near and distant future through the calendar summary and mini-calendar views.
• Review past and upcoming events in daily and weekly granularity.
• Collaborate on a shared individual calendar, allowing multiple authors to read, create and edit events on the shared calendar.
• Experimentally import/export iCalendar files.

In addition, the 0.5 Release provides:

• The next stage in the evolution of our developer platform with support for early adopters developers to start building parcels.
• Improvements in performance and reliability.
• Email attachment infrastructure.
• New improved sharing architecture.
• Incremental visual improvements.

Running Chandler

For OS X and Windows XP, running Chandler is very simple. You can double-click on the Chandler executable, named Chandler_osx_2005XSXX (Mac OS X), Chandler.exe (Windows XP), or chandler (Linux). If you are running Mac OS X, you need to copy Chandler from your .dmg disk image to somewhere else on your file system first.

We have made a number of changes to the repository schema for 0.5 therefore, if you have installed a previous version of Chandler, you will have to delete your current repository. More information regarding the location of your repository and the new profile directory are available at Profile Directory.

For 0.5 we also have installers available for both Windows and Linux. These are basically compressed archives that can be unpacked to run Chandler.

Additional platform-specific information is in the README.linux.txt, README.win.txt, and README.osx.txt files included in the install process.

If you compile Chandler yourself, the instructions are slightly more complicated: see RunningChandlerFromSourceReleases.

Setting Preferences

To use the sharing features of Chandler revision 0.5, you will need accounts on IMAP, SMTP, and WebDAV servers. The WebDAV server acts as an intermediary for Items, while email is used to send and receive invitations to share data.

To set the preferences, select File->Accounts. You will then have a choice of setting the IMAP, SMTP, and WebDAV servers.

Email Account

For IMAP and SMTP preferences, you should be able to look at the preferences in your normal email program to figure out what the settings should be in Chandler. For "Full Name" in the IMAP preferences, use your own full name, e.g. "Mabel Garcia".

WebDAV Account

You will also need a WebDAV account to enable sharing Chandler collections.

By default a WebDAV account on the OSAF WebDAV server is selected for you. For 0.5, two other free out-of-the-box options are also being made availble from Xythos Software Inc. and Venue Communications. We are using these are "public" third-party commercial WebDAV servers to demonstrate that OSAF is not doing anything out of the ordinary to its WebDAV server in order to support Chandler sharing.

• The Venue Communications server is a demo of their WebDAV hosting service where you can subscribe to to share Macintosh iCa calendars. See Venue Communications for more information.
• The Xythos server is a demo of their Sharemation WebDAV server product. You can see more information about Sharemation at: Sharemation

If you have your own WebDAV server, you can add this account by clicking on the "Create new account" drop-down and selecting the WebDAV option. See the Apache Foundation's ModDAV project for more information on setting up your own webDAV server.

e.g

For a Sharemation account, for Server, type in

• http://www.sharemation.com

For Path, type in

• userid, e.g. mabelgarcia

IMPORTANT: Do not put a slash (/) at the beginning of the path field! That will confuse Chandler.