Release notes for PG 2.2-pre1

This article has been retained as a historical document. It is not up-to-date and the formatting may be lacking. Use the information herein with caution.

Introduction

This is a test prerelease of the upcoming WeBWorK Program Generating Language (PG) 2.2. It contains numerous improvements over PG 2.1.3.

Availability

PG is distributed as a tarball. It is available on our SourceForge project page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93112

To use this library, you will probably want to download WeBWorK. See AvailableVersions for more information.

Installing directly from CVS is also possible. Refer to the InstallationManualV2pt2 for more information.

Installation

Documentation on installing and configuring PG is available in the WeBWorK InstallationManualV2pt2. If you are upgrading an existing installation, be sure to read the section Upgrading an existing WeBWorK installation.

Help

If you need help installing or using PG 2.2, consult WeBWorKDocs and WeBWorKFAQs.

You can also visit the WeBWorK discussion group and post your question there. The developers monitor this forum.

Bug Reports & Feature Requests

Submit bug reports and feature requests at http://bugs.webwork.rochester.edu/. We can't fix bugs and add features if you don't tell us about them!

Patches

While we welcome patches of any sort, by patching against the latest CVS code, you save us and yourself time. A bug in this release may be fixed in CVS, and we can more easily handle patches against the latest code. Check out the latest development version from CVS and patch against that. Consult the WeBWorKCVS topic for more information.

-- Main.SamHathaway - 12 Jan 2006