Daily Archives: 17 April, 2000

There is something weird about bug buddy or the gnome bug system. I am getting unrelated bugs from different people posted as followups for bug #3500. All the followups have been posted with bug-buddy 0.6 or 0.7. It is getting quite annoying (and yes I have reported the problen: #8144)Also got a message from someone wanting help installing libglade, because he can't install Unreal Tournament without it :) The GNOME mailing lists are really slow. There is almost three days between sending a message and it getting posted to the list. I checked in a correct distance function for the custom shape code. Now all the custom shapes in dia are actually shaped with respect to selection (before they were all rectangular as far as selection was concerned).

They have an ask slashdot story on slashdot at the moment that seems to be asking the question: There is some GPL'd code I really like and want to use in my proprietary application. I know that the GPL says that I should GPL my software if I want to use the code, but do I really have to? How about if I put it in a DLL? The comments range from incorrect opinions and suggestions about how to get round the GPL to sensible messages from people such as Bruce Perens. Slashdot is definitely not what it once was (both that a story like this would even be on the front page, and the comments people posted). I wonder how that peer press idea is comming along. It has the potential to provide a good news service and make sure crud like that doesn't get propagated.

Today is my 21st birthday. It looks like I am getting some Lego Mindstorms stuff, which should be interesting. The custom shape code in dia now has a proper distance algorithm. This should get of the bugs where sometimes clicking on one object causes another one close by (which happens to be implemented with a custom shape) to be selected.