On Sunday, the white of my right eye was almost completely red, which was a bit of a shock. I went to the doctor on Monday, who didn’t know what the problem was exactly, so prescribed some prednisolone eye drops. They seem to be working okay, and the red has retreated to just one side of the pupil, and will hopefully be gone in a day or too, which is a relief.
Got the nautilus view up and running. A number of pictures of an early version are at:
In the current version, provides and requires have been split onto separate pages (and I added conflicts and obsoletes), and they are only visible if there is anything to show. There is also a changelog page for information about development of the package.
I added support for looking at info about package files on disk (as opposed to info about installed packages), which didn’t take much code.
I turned off the feature where it tries to resolve “requires” or “provides” resources (so you could see which packages provided the resources the current one requires, and what packages depend on it). I just need to add some code to follow these deps on demand …
linux.conf.au
The call for papers is almost over. If you want to speak, please send in your abstracts soon.
GNOME
I started writing up some code to add RPM support to Nautilus. At the moment, I just have a simple GNOME VFS module that allows you to see what packages are on the system. You can see a sample of what it looks like here. The package sizes represent the installed size of the package (as reported in the RPM database), and the modification times are the installation times of the packages.
I still need to write some code so that you can view information about the package (probably as a nautilus view), and some utilities for installing and removing packages (these will probably be separate applications, which should cut down on the problems I ran into when writing GnoRPM. When it is finished, it should be pretty useful.
One of the annoying problems with libtool is the way the -export-symbols and -export-symbols-regex. The flags are supposed to limit which symbols in the library are available to programs that dynamically link to the library.
Unfortunately, the feature is not implemented correctly for many platforms. Rather than leaving symbols out of the dynamic symbol table, it just removes debugging information for the non-exported symbols (so not only does it not work, it also makes your code harder to debug …).
So I put together a simple patch to fix the problem. At the moment, it only changes the behaviour under Linux as I can’t verify whether it works correctly in the other cases (it probably does though). If anyone wants to try the patch, it is available at:
I wonder if libtool will make a new release any time soon?
sej: that sounds a lot more like the NPL than the MPL. The MPL does not give any special privileges to Netscape, the only mention of Netscape in the license is that they may publish new versions of the licence, similar to GPL.
In fact, the license policy states that new original code should be licenced under MPL/GPL/LGPL tripple license. I am not quite sure why an LGPL rendering library (such as the LGPL portions of raph‘s libart) should be a problem — such a license sounds consistant with the license policy for “new non-original source files”.
