Hacking
Cought some infection in the throat last Tuesday which got worse and worse and by Friday I was pretty much hammered and spent a lot of time in bed. During the weekend I was in a state of being indoors and mostly by the computer so I ended up hacking quite a bit…
As a result I also managed to push out three new releases yesterday. But first I’d like to comment on a new structure in Gossip.
Martyn Russell co-maintainer of Gossip
Martyn has been a really hard working contributor to Gossip and has lately ended up fixing lots of pieces that I have disabled during the largest code clean-up in Gossips history. He has also stayed on the project even though I’ve sometimes left his patches dangling unreviewed for a silly long time due to not having time to look at them, thanks for that!
Martyn joined the project and discontinued his own jabber client GNOME Jabber for the greater cause of creating one great client for the GNOME desktop. The result of our joint labour is now starting to show in that we now have a base for starting to add more features in a much cleaner way, firstly we’ll finish off Martyns huge work on the transport support based on some wet dreams I mocked up long ago. The result is really making transports in Gossip much better than in any other Jabber client I know.
So, to sum it up, keep rocking Martyn!
Blam 1.8.0
Blam 1.8.0 adds one of the features I really wanted in 2.0 with a patch from Heath Harrelson to add support for Atom feeds. This makes Blam useful for a large number of feeds only distributed in this format. Blam 1.8.0 also should work on newer Mono versions where the 1.6.x branch had some issues. As a result of these additions Blam now depends on the 1.1.x branch of Mono, but what do you say, you gain some, you loose some…
Loudmouth 0.90
I’ve been setting target for 1.0 of Loudmouth soon before switching to a new branch for doing some larger changes to help bind the library as well as adding full XMPP support like SASL and TLS. I also want to add a higher level layer that can optionally be used for those that don’t want to learn the entire XMPP protocol in order to connect and send a few messages.
Devhelp 0.10
This version of Devhelp mostly includes a bunch of fixes for newer Metacity, getting rid of focus stealing by the HTML widget. It also contains 9 updated translations as well as now also being translated into Hungarian and Kinyarwanda.