The Laws Have Changed,
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This week I got an invite for trying out Github beta. Github is a nice service providing some space and tools to set up git repositories for open source projects. Obviously, setting up HTTP (dumb) read-only git repos is doable on any box connected to the intertron by merely copying …
Travelling Band/Back,
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finally, back at home after FOSDEM 2008. the last leg of the trip back from Bruxelles has been exceptionally longer because the London Metropolitan Network on weekends is, apparently, made of fail. the Clutter talk on saturday went, in my opinion, quite well; lots of people listened to my ramblings …
Meet the Farce,
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comedy gold or bad acid trip? personally, epic fail kudos to pgc
Helm, set a course… for love,
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a GNOME cruise? I already have the theme song… GNOME-Love Boat, love exciting and new, Come aboard, we're expecting you. The GNOME-Love Boat soon will be making another release, The GNOME-Love Boat promises something for everyone. Set a course for adventure, Your box's on a new romance. And GNOME-Love Won't …
Enterlude,
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I’ve just sent this to the Clutter mailing list, but I guess that more exposure is fine as some of you might already know, we have started working on a reference “toolkit” based on Clutter called Tidy. Tidy is a simple library containing some useful actors and interfaces which …
Paint the Silence/2,
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Continuing the ongoing saga… Using the --silence hackery from Jacob Berkman I found a way to finally STFU at least libtool. In your configure.ac add: changequote(,)dnl LIBTOOL="\\$(QUIET_LT)${LIBTOOL}" changequote([,])dnl Add a Makefile.decls file to the root of your project, containing: QUIET_LT = @echo ' ' LIBTOOL $@; And include …
Rag And Bone,
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Usually, when writing bindings for a C library in a high level language, there’s a sweet spot where you have to leave the relative safety of an API similar to the library you are wrapping and the idiomatic correctness dictated by the language itself. For instance, in the PyClutter …
Kingdom of Spain,
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Clutter: Today I released the first developers snapshot of Clutter 0.6 - Clutter 0.5.0. The full announcement is on the Clutter blog, and since it’s very long, I won’t copy and paste it here. You can grab 0.5.0 here; as usual, this is a …
Paint the Silence,
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Weee, long time, no blog. Dear Lazyweb, is it at all possible to coerce the devilspawn also known as libtool to actually be quiet when compiling and printing something like the kernel compilation outpout - that is, something like: GEN autogenerated.c CC file1.c CC file2.c LINK output INSTALL …