Postings by Mathias in March 2008
Summer Approaching
This is the first day this year I can work on the balcony.
Seems summer is approaching. Sweet.
#ifndef LIBRARY_IS_GPL
There are libraries, which are licensed under GPL, instead of LGPL. This puts people under the risk of accidentely violating the copyright of that library, by using the GPL library from some LGPL library for instance. Well, also could be that doing that changes the license of your LGPL library to GPL or whatever. Don't really want to think about the horrible implications of accidently using a GPL ...
GTK+ Binding Usage
Misread a statement from Mikael Hallendal on gtk-devel-list today.
He wrote:
For example the C# bindings are not on the GNOME bindings page, even
though it is one of the most used and high quality bindings for GTK+.
I read:
it is the most used and high quality bindings for GTK+
Wanted to counter proof this statement he never did, so I ran this tiny script on apt's package list:
for b in libgtk2.0 python-gtk libgtk2.0-cil libgtk2-perl libgtk2-ruby
do
c=$(expr 0 $(grep -c "^Depends:.*\\<$b" \
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Finding the broken .la file
In case you wonder which .la pulls in /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so, instead of /opt/gnome/lib/libglib-2.0.so, you can try this code snippet. The first pipeline retreives all .la files libtool reads, the second one scans that file for the unwanted .la file.
strace -f make 2>&1 | grep 'open(".*\.la".*) = [0-9]\+$' | cut -d\" -f2 | sort -u | tee /tmp/labber
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GTK+ Hackfest is over
So the GTK+ Hackfest really ended yesterday. I absolutely enjoyed having all you guys arround me. I am absolutely confident, that all the ideas collected and exchanged here will lead to some great GTK+ 3.0 release. It cannot be said often enough, but even in our highly connected world face-to-face meetings are invaluable for our work. This can be understand as invitation to order your tickets ...
Feeding Lessons
This week with Marc-André was troublesome. He didn't sleep much, he grouche, was in really bad mood. We thought having caused this due the exiting weekend. We thought this was a result from visting my parents in law during the weekend. It was a really nice, long weekend. Marc-André was turned arround among grand-parents, great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. I had the ...
Projector for GNOME Events Box
The GTK+ Hackfest has its first positive result already: The GNOME Events Box got a brand new DLP projector. Decision was made to buy one, since renting a projector for a week costs about 200 EUR, wereas you get entry level projectors for only 600 EUR. The Foundation's brand new projector was about 580,99 EUR - including shipment (projector with bag and cables, back side).
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Launchpad's Personal Package Archives
Probably inspired by openSUSE's Build Service Launchpad provides this excellent Personal Package Archive (PPA) service.
It's quite exciting service: You just request your PPA, upload your source packages via dput command, and get them built within freshly setup Ubuntu environments. When building succeeds your packages are placed within some apt-get repository. No further maintenance steps required.
Unfortunately the service is not perfect yet: It seems to be ...
