Gallery 2.0 Released

uss_valiant writes "From the Gallery website: "We are incredibly pleased to announce the release of Gallery 2.0! Over three years of design and development have gone into creating the best online photo management product possible. Gallery 2.0 is the natural successor to Gallery 1, and we hope that you like what you see. Don't wait, download Gallery 2 now!" From a developers point of view, the Gallery 2 framework is particularly interesting because it's written with modern programming patterns (OOP, extreme programming, test driven development, MVC, factories, modularity, ...) in mind which is rather unusual for PHP based projects. Over 1500 unit tests ensure correct functionality and its architecture is really impressive."

Comments

Extreme programming?

[Morinaka]

If they had used extreme programming wouldn't it have been done alot quicker than 3 years? Or are they saying they just had some all-nighters.

Database required? Are you nuts?

[Matt Perry]

From the requirements page:

Database (Gallery 2 only) - MySQL 3.x or 4.x, PostgreSQL 7.x, Oracle 9i or 10g (Gallery 1.x does NOT require a database)

Are you fucking kidding me? A database is required? Not optional if you don't want a few features, but required? I have to create another database user with yet another password just to display some pictures with thumbnails? Since I'd be using Gallery 1 because of this ridiculous requirement I have to ask, is Gallery 1 going to continue to be supported?