GUADEC Photos – So Ross managed to capture my evil twin at the GUADEC party standing next to Dave Malcolm (who looks worse for ware) 
Some of the photos showing up post-GUADEC are cool. It is a shame Mikael and I didn’t have a camera to capture Glynn running from the German police at the end of the party really 
– when you got to go, you’ve got to go!
libtool on Windows – So I have been trying to get libltdl work on Windows to automatically load libraries at runtime for plugin support. This stuff is not nice, I was trying to use libltdl from a library and found out that you can’t do that until v2.0 of libtool (on Windows) and that there are problems particularly with MSYS. It is all going now, I had to use libltdl from an executable instead. Thankfully, after speaking to Tor at the GUADEC party, he told me about libtool-cache which speeds things up considerably. This is really needed since creating processes on Windows is expensive and given the number of times that happens when using GNU’s auto tools you can imagine how slow things get 
Blog move – Jeff has now moved my blog over from Advogato onto planet.gnome.org, cheers dude
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Why use libltdl when we have libgmodule, which works fine. I have avoided libltdl, it’s enough to have to use libtool at build time, I don’t want any if it at run-time…
We don’t use libgmodule or any of glib in this case, but if we did, I would definitely use it over libltdl
In this particular case, the software is all proprietary, like you (with Evolution) I have the job of porting all the libraries / binaries required to get the end product working on Windows.