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.

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