Chandler Milestone: 0.7alpha2

Thank you for your interest in the 0.7alpha2 milestone of Chandler. We hope that this milestone of Chandler will give you a flavor of Chandler's architecture and APIs, and a glimpse of what Chandler will do in the future.

Chandler is now an experimentally usable calendar but the other parts of the product are still under very early development. You should not trust this version with your data. Backup your calendar information regularly using the import/export feature. Please refer to the our 0.7 Home Page for information on known bugs, future plans, volunteering and where to go for further documentation.

If you run into problems, please see Reporting Bugs.

Compatibility Notes

Our Linux binaries are built on a Ubuntu (Breezy Badger) machine. They are unlikely to run under any other configuration. To build Chandler yourself, see Building Chandler.
The OSX binaries have been tested on Panther (10.3) and Tiger (10.4).
The Windows binaries have only been tested on XP.

What Should I Download?

This software is subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations and other U.S. law, and may not be exported or re-exported to certain countries (currently Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria) or to persons or entities prohibited from receiving U.S. exports (including Denied Parties, Specially Designated Nationals, and entities on the Bureau of Industry and Security Entity List or involved with missile technology or nuclear, chemical or biological weapons).

There are a few different types of Chandler distribution files that are available in this milestone; choose the one that's right for you:

End-users' distributions: If you just want to use Chandler, this distribution contains everything you need -- just download, unpack, and run! Please select one of the following: Linux | Mac OSX | Windows
Debug distributions: If you're a developer and want to run Chandler in debugging mode, this distribution contains debug versions of the binaries. You can also use this distribution to develop your own parcels (see ParcelLoading for details on loading your own parcels). Please select one of the following: Linux | Mac OSX | Windows
Source code distribution: If you want to compile everything yourself, including the Python interpreter and all required libraries, this download contains the entire source tree. A gzip'd tar file of this milestone is available here (if using Mac OSX, please unpack the file with gnutar instead of tar), and instructions for building Chandler are at instructions for building Chandler.
List of all downloads: A listing of all downloadable files from this milestone (and their check-sums in MD5 and SHA-1) is available here.

End-Users' Distribution: Linux

Note: This binary is built for Fedora Core 2. Other platforms may have to build from source.

Download Chandler_linux_0.7alpha2.tar.gz to a directory on your computer. Change your shell's current directory to the directory you copied the file to, and unpack the distribution by typing the following:

   tar zxf Chandler_linux_0.7alpha2.tar.gz

This will create a Chandler_linux_0.7alpha2 subdirectory. Cd into that directory:

   cd Chandler_linux_0.7alpha2

Run Chandler:

   ./chandler

End-Users' Distribution: Mac OSX

Download Chandler_osx_0.7alpha2.dmg to your desktop, double-click it, and it will unpack the Chandler application. Drag the Chandler application icon to your desktop or somewhere else on your filesystem. Next, double-click the Chandler application icon. (If you try to doubleclick on the Chandler icon without copying it from the .dmg disk image, Chandler will give you a cryptic error.)

Note: Currently Chandler is built only for PPC Macs and while it can run on a Intel Mac using the PPC emulation tool Rosetta, it's been described as being "painful", "slow" and other non-printable expressions. We are getting in place the hardware and tools to create Intel binaries and will announce when they are available.

End-Users' Distribution: Windows

Download Chandler_win_0.7alpha2.exe, install it by double-clicking on the installer using Windows file explorer. Again, using the file explorer, double-click on chandler.exe in the directory you installed Chandler into.

Debug Distribution: Linux

Note: This binary is built for Fedora Core 2. Other platforms may have to build from source.

Download Chandler_linux_debug_0.7alpha2.tar.gz and save it to disk. Change your shell's current directory to the location you saved the file and unpack the distribution via:

   tar zxf Chandler_linux_debug_0.7alpha2.tar.gz

This will create a Chandler_linux_debug_0.7alpha2 subdirectory. Cd into that directory:

   cd Chandler_linux_debug_0.7alpha2

Run Chandler:

   ./chandlerDebug

Debug Distribution: Mac OSX

Download Chandler_osx_debug_0.7alpha2.dmg to your desktop, double-click it, and it will unpack the Chandler application. Drag the Chandler application icon to your desktop or somewhere else on your filesystem. Next, double-click the Chandler application icon. (If you try to doubleclick on the Chandler icon without copying it from the .dmg disk image, Chandler will give you a cryptic error.)

Debug Distribution: Windows

Download Chandler_win_debug_0.7alpha2.exe, install it by double-clicking on the installer using Windows file explorer. Again, using the file explorer, double-click on chandler.exe in the directory you installed Chandler into.