[announce] Release Note: OTRS Windows Installer

[Hauke Böttcher]

Dear Community Members,

+++++++++++++++++++++++++ Release Note ++++++++++++++++++++++++

Due to license problems regarding ActivePerl which was included
in the former Windows Installer we were forced to overwork the 
current installer package. This will be done in two steps (1) 
provide a workaround to enable you to have an installer file
available (2) provide a stable release of a new designed Windows
Installer based on an alternative Perl version.

Stable Release:
===============

Is planned to be released Nov-07-2008

Release:
========

The windows installer will be provided with OTRS 2.3.3.

Limitations:
============

The workaround presented today entails some limitations, listed
below:

* ActivePerl was replaced by Strawberry Perl
* The apache module mod_perl, that speeds up the exectution of 
  Perl applications will not be avaliable (CGI mode only), which
  may cost some performance.
* DBD::ODBC will also be not available yet. That means that an 
  integration of databases using ODBC connections will not be 
  possible with this installer version.
* Additional CPAN modules, that might be needed to develop 
  additional features based on perl, can not be installed.

Download:
=========

* http://otrs.org/download/
* http://www.otrs.com/en/download/software/ (english)
* http://www.otrs.com/de/download/software/ (german)
* ftp://ftp.otrs.org/pub/otrs/ (Germany/Hamburg)

A complete list of all download mirrors (ftp/http/rsync) is 
available at http://otrs.org/download/

MD5 message digest (128-bit) checksums:
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72e87faec1e285d032c161c8b83ccb77
ftp://ftp.otrs.org/pub/otrs/otrs-2.3.3-101-win32.exe


Bug Reporting:
==============
Although the workaround has been tested before, we 
Appreciate your contributions and bug reports. You, the OTRS
Community, has always been an invaluable source of helpful
suggestions, fair comments and well skilled testers to us.

Therefore a great "THX!" goes out to you!

o http://bugs.otrs.org/  

((enjoy))

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