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!style="width: | !style="width:400px" | Legacy Software 1.x.y releases | ||
!style="width:200px" | Beta builds of legacy software | !style="width:200px" | Beta builds of legacy software | ||
!style="width:200px" | Cumulus 2 alpha releases | !style="width:200px" | Cumulus 2 alpha releases | ||
!style="width: | !style="width:300px" | MX beta 3.0.0 | ||
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| This page was created for the legacy Cumulus 1 software (up to 1.9.4). If you look at the history tab of this page, user '''Shamrockspider''' created this page at 12:55 on 27 August 2009 for the purpose of '''Documenting the cumulus.ini file content and its function.''' | | This page was created for the legacy Cumulus 1 software (up to 1.9.4). If you look at the history tab of this page, user '''Shamrockspider''' created this page at 12:55 on 27 August 2009 for the purpose of '''Documenting the cumulus.ini file content and its function.''' | ||
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* Finally, this old "Cumulus.ini" paqe, with the attached history, but without any parameter information in the main page, was renamed to its current name, so it has preserved the history of the old page that had been split into two new pages, neither of which had the past history | * Finally, this old "Cumulus.ini" paqe, with the attached history, but without any parameter information in the main page, was renamed to its current name, so it has preserved the history of the old page that had been split into two new pages, neither of which had the past history | ||
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* At release 3.10.0, the settings pages in the admin interface were given a significant makeover, and huge numbers of new settings were created, while many others became redundant | * At release 3.10.0, the settings pages in the admin interface were given a significant makeover, and huge numbers of new settings were created, while many others became redundant | ||
* | * It was clear the old [[Cumulus.ini (MX_3.0.0_to_3.7.0)|MX "Cumulus.ini"]] page was badly designed for the way 3.10.0 operated | ||
* That old page was already out of date as it had not been updated for 3.8.0 changes | |||
* It became obvious it was easier to start a new page that would would be based around 3.10.0 MX release, but would incorporate changes from 3.8.0 onwards, and would ignore anything that was now redundant | |||
* The other change was a redesign of the page, so it focussed on explaining how to change the settings using the admin interface, rather than just documenting what each parameter in the file was used for | * The other change was a redesign of the page, so it focussed on explaining how to change the settings using the admin interface, rather than just documenting what each parameter in the file was used for | ||
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