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Another season, another kdesvn-build release.

Big things in this release:

• The run-tests option, as suggested, tested, and improved by David Faure.
• Git support, so that you can build qt-copy and amarok (and more KDE modules if/when they switch). You need to add the repository option and possibly also the branch option to select what code to clone/update. See the sample configuration file for details.
• All KDE 3 support has been removed.
• Various bugfixes.

I expect you may find bugs with the git support, if so please let me know so I can fix. There are sadly still a couple of reported bugs, but the only reason I went and released this was because I had nice people prompting me via e-mail. I will fix them though, I promise. ;)

Now back to my research papers…

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A reminder was posted to kde-core-devel today, which I’ll pass along via Planet KDE:

There are two weeks remaining to the “soft” KDE 4.4 feature freeze. Either get the feature stabilized and in /trunk, or update the KDE 4.4 Feature Plan before November 4, 2009.

See the KDE 4.4 Release Schedule for more info.

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Sadly the title doesn’t mean I’ve gotten a job developing software. No, in this case I’ve finally bitten the bullet and joined one of the two major software developer professional organizations here in the US. In my case, the IEEE Computer Society. I suppose I may join the ACM later though.

Anyways, I didn’t actually join because of professional fealty or anything, but more because as a graduate student it’s time to start digging into the resources available in the various published journals and conference proceedings.

On the other hand you in theory get access to other useful things as well. For instance there’s some Safari Books thing that lets you read different computer-related books online. I don’t really find it horribly useful myself since you have to read it through the browser (and I don’t feel like screen-scraping it just to convert to PDF). But at the same time it’s better than nothing at all.

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As usual, no (coding) progress happens for me unless something else is causing me problems on my system. In this case, I had the opportunity to need to use my library dependency viewer.

Qt is nice enough to link to KIO when run under a KDE desktop, so even though ELF Library Viewer only links to Qt right now, I still get the nice KDE file open dialog. This is 99% of the time a positive feature. But for some reason the dialog was crashing and just having a horrible time handling large directories (like, say, /usr/bin). Worse yet, I couldn’t simply type /usr/bin/foo and click OK, since that isn’t working either. Hmm.

I decided the easiest thing to do would be to add support for opening files passed to the command line of my application (and I was right). Since I was working on it anyways I also ported the build system to CMake (from QMake), and so now it’s possible to install it/make packages/etc.

I’ve placed the updated version on my software page in case anyone’s interested. Obligatory screenshot is the same as two years ago:

Now it’s back to reading research papers all day. :-/

Posted by mpyne under Computing Troubles & KDE & Programming | 2 Comments »