Finally recent Gammu version (1.06.00) has been migrated to testing. It took so long as it needed manual hint because of both python-gammu/gammu breakage loops. Unfortunately there is no other way to resolve unstable Gammu ABI than using so strict dependencies.
Now I finally undestand why Gnokii is using that complex way for passing parameters. It is painful to use it, but it keeps ABI stable enough. We need to find better solution for this.
I sometimes random page on internet, where somebody in blog, wiki or whatever complains that something in Wammu or Gammu is broken. Last place where I noticed it was phone database. Why don't you report such problems to bug tracker, where you have much higher chance to make your problem fixed?
I know it is more work to collect all needed information, but if you want to use the software, it should be worth of it for you.
Just after previous change to link to FoneWiki.org, I was notified that Wikipedia has information about phones as well. As the links seem to be more or less same, next obvious step was to link Wikipedia also. So have a fun with more information about phones.
FoneWiki.org is great wiki for sharing user experiences with phones. You can find there information about phones which are usually not provided by manufacturers as various usage hints.
As I think this might be interesting for more Gammu users, I decided to add links in Gammu phone database, which will point to FoneWiki.org pages. Linking is done by phone name, so it does not have to be always working, but works at least for some phones :-).
I just activated some rewriting for Gammu phone database, so that URIs are now more user and search engine friendly. This also fixed navigation in top of page. If you find any problems with this change, please contact me.
It looks like searching was not working since transfer to new server. There was problem in SQL used as one field now became keyword. I fixed this, so you can again search phone instead of browsing whole database.
As I already wrote, I'm currently thinking of major rewrite of Wammu code. This is partly inspired by problems I have with wxPython, partly by with to change data handling a lot, what is needed for support for multiple phones and intelligent caching of it.
Today I started to add design notes to bug tracking system. Well it was mostly core dump of my brain inspired by questions one user had about future. All design notes are now publicly available and all of them are childs of bug #147.
These ideas are not yet definite and no code has been yet written (except of some proof of concept stuff), so you have great chance to influence Wammu future by reading and commenting them. I will also add there more stuff as most of my ideas is currenly on paper and I didn't transform everything into electronic format.
I just noticed that Gammu compressed tarball for first time reached 1 MiB. Well most of recent additions were caused by inclusion of gnapplet (I tried to find some page dedicated to this, but it seems to be tightly integrated with Gnokii), but it still indicates that code is alive :-).
It looks that the code basically works. At least I already got information from several users, who managed to run it. However there are still some things broken:
setup.py is somewhat wrong. Maybe I missed something while writing
it, but you don't need to invoke this script to run Wammu - just
execute wammu script in top level directory and it should work.
Finally there exists python-gammu module for Windows. Thanks to BitPim and especially Simon Capper for building it. You can grab it from usual place.
I will merge needed patches soon into regullar python-gammu relese.
Now I need volunteer to test Wammu on Windows, but it should not be that hard.
In recent days I got two announcement about starting projects using python-gammu. Both of them are GUI applications, so it looks like Wammu will have competitors.
It's good to see that, because I seriously don't have much time for writing Wammu and this will bring users other possibility. And maybe it will push me harder to finally make PyGTK rewrite of Wammu :-).
Let's see how will these projects evolve, but I hope they will be successful.