Every other week, someone asks how to use the new unit testing framework in GLib (released with GLib-2.16.0) and Gtk+ (to be released with the next stable). First, here is a write-up from last December that summarizes all important aspects: Test Framework Mini Tutorial.
For people building packages that use the new […]
The XML GUI definition files used in Rapicorn and also in Beast (described briefly in an earlier blog post) supported a simple $(function,arguments…) evaluation syntax, similar to GNU Make. I’ve never been very happy with this syntax, but it was fairly easy to implement at the start and followed naturally from early $VARIABLE […]
Just like LinuxTag last year, I went to Berlin the past week to help running the Gnome booth for LinuxTag 2008.
Due to a sports accident, our booth bunny Sven Herzberg unfortunately couldn’t make it, so on Tuesday I took over booth management and merchandise from him and hurried […]
Amongst many other things during the Gtk+ Hackfest 2008, it was brought to my attention that Gtk+ maintainership is sometimes perceived as some kind of leet circle, hard to join for newcomers. I can’t really imagine how “hard” it is for newcomers to join Gtk+ maintenance these days. The learning curve probably […]
Rapicorn 8.4.0 has just been released to the world: Rapicorn v8.4.0 Announcement
Lots of things have happened since the last snapshot over a year ago, some of which kept me from making releases or snapshots earlier. ;-)
Others actually took place in the code base as interesting developments, summarized below.
There’s quite […]
There have been several requests about hosting Gtk+ (and GLib) as a Git repository recently and since that topic has come up more and more often, I meant to write about this for quite some time.
Let’s first take a look at the actual motivation for such a move. There are […]
I finally got around to fix a long-standing and tricky bug report: Bug 64764 - Class initialization isn’t thread safe. Thread safety problems in class initializers and _get_type() functions caused nasty problems in other components that depend on parallel type creation, in particular GStreamer (Dependency Graph for bug 64764). With both being fixed […]
A couple people have reported minor and major bugs in the last yyhelp version, particularly after yycommit got reimplemented to operate on top of git-commit(1) instead of cg-commit(1). Besides some others, this new release fixes all known yycommit issues and also (re-)introduces some new features: yyhelp (v0.9)
Overview of Changes in YummyYummySourceControl-0.9:
* use plain […]
Here is a new release of YummyYummySourceControl, a shallow porcelain script around common git(7) command variants: yyhelp (v0.8)
This version supports a new command to grep and match an extended regular expression on the full project history by invoking git-grep(1) on all existing commits, displaying matches by commit hash and file name. Also, a CVS/SVN/Cogito […]
We’ve been fairly busy recently with resolving the milestone bugs of the next Beast release. The good news is that pretty much all of the hard issues are sorted out by now, the bad news is that according to the release plan some essential release features are still missing ;)
It’s the large recent work […]
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