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 […]
I will quickly roll up some of the interesting bits that happened around Beast in the last couple of weeks. Stefan Westerfeld sat down and put up a collection of the various instruments and loops he is producing with Beast. Nicely described BSE files along with Ogg previews are available in his music […]
It really has been a long way to get this release out of the door. It fixes some serious crashers that i intend to blog about later, but more importantly it fixes a security vulnerability issue, here’s the related advisory: artswrapper vulnerability 2006-2916 Upgrading from any older Beast version is thusly strongly recommended. […]
There’s been quite some hacking going on in the Beast tree recently. Stefan Westerfeld kindly wrote up a new development summary which is published on the Beast front page.
In particular, we’ve been hacking on the unit tests and tried to get make check invocations run much faster. To paraphrase Michael C. Feathers […]
After next Friday, Stefan Westerfeld and me are leaving for a 3 week vacation. So in order to not let the Beast release slip even more, we’ve been working hard over the last couple weeks to get a new tarball out of the door. After much fiddling and an SVN-migration hick up in the […]
Faced with the documentation system requirements outlined in the last episode (The Beast Documentation Quest (2)) it took a while to figure that there really was no single documentation tool fulfilling all the needs outlined. So writing a new documentation tool for the Beast project looked like the only viable solution. I wasn’t ready […]
In order to look for a new documentation tool for Beast, i set out a list of requirements that had to be matched:
a) We need to generate reference documentation from C and C++ source code comments. b) Since we also need to process ordinary documentation files (say an FAQ) that involve […]
Around 2002, we (the beast project) started to put together the various bits and pieces for a makeinfo based documentation system. We ended up using texinfo markup because it’s not as hard to read and write for humans as XML is, and you can easily define your own macros to aid you in semantic […]
Sat down with stefan today to evaluate GarageBand to get some ideas for improvements and neccessary additions in beast. The number and types of loops it offers out of the box (actually we also had Jam Pack 1) is simply thrilling. Cooking up a rich dance music background is a matter of minutes. We […]
BEAST/BSE version 0.6.6 is out, managed to throw it out before GUADEC despite the long list of must-fix items i had for this release. Will be heading to stuttgart for GUADEC6 tomorrow.