Minx

Those of you who frequent Munuviana, the MuNu group blog, will already know that I am writing a blogging system of my own. It's called Minx, and it now has a blog of its own. Admittedly, the blog is still running under Movable Type, since Minx currently does not actually work...

It's sort of a developer's diary, and will morph into a documentation and support site once Minx is up and running. If you're interested in shaping the feature set of Minx - or even in contributing, since Minx will be released as open source - drop by and have a look.

Important Geek Details (for Rossz)

Minx is written in Python. I am also planning a small PHP library to allow easy access to Minx functions for all the PHP coders out there (though this may not be ready for the initial release). Minx will also support access via XML-RPC, and that will be in the initial release.

The system is being built around the Metakit database, and won't support SQL. This may change in the future - I would like to support SQL, but I haven't done any planning for that yet. If you are after remote access to the Minx database (rather than plugging Minx into an existing SQL database), there is a SQL access layer available for Metakit.

Minx will initially be delivered on Linux, but it should work on Windows as well (and I hope to have a chance to test this before release) and any version of Unix. Since that now includes everything from MacOS X to OS/390, the only platforms likely to have a problem are OS/400 and the Nintendo Gamecube.

To run Minx you will need Python 2.3 or later, Metakit, and (optional but recommended) the Python Imaging Library. Also you will need either the Apache web server (or another web server that supports Apache SSI tags) or PHP.

I will put a more detailed version of this post up on the Minx blog shortly.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:40 AM

Comments

1 You left out important geek details. What language are you writing it in? Will you be supporting SQL systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc)? What platforms will you support?

Posted by: Rossz at January 10, 2004 03:54 AM (43SjN)

2 The iSeries servers, upon which OS/400 runs, now support Linux....

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/linux/

Posted by: Any Mouse at January 10, 2004 11:13 AM (YV/oy)

3 Well, I'm glad that's sorted out! All those poor i-series owners unable to run Minx...

Now, we'll just have to put pressure on Nintendo.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 10, 2004 11:34 AM (jtW2s)

4 Pixy [Off Topic] I'm having a few problems with Linda's and CD's sites at different resolutions and browsers. How do you make the index file recognize a browser and set the proper CSS file? Is this also possible to do with different resolutions? Thanks for any assistance you may be.

Posted by: The Bartender at January 12, 2004 07:39 PM (pRXfD)

5 There may be an easier way to do it, but this is what I did:

<script language="JavaScript">
document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" href="<$MTBlogURL$>');
var agt=navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
if (agt.indexOf('opera') != -1) document.write('opera.css');
else if (agt.indexOf('gecko') != -1) document.write('styles-site.css');
else if (agt.indexOf('msie') != -1) document.write('ie2.css');
else document.write('default.css');
document.write('" type="text/css"/>');
</script>

Unfortunately, that means maintaing several separate stylesheets. Which is why the sidebars on Ambient Irony still show up as grey in IE.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 12, 2004 08:14 PM (jtW2s)






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