Michal Čihař - Archive for Aug. 6, 2006

For upcoming Wammu-ng I have to resolve again same question that I solved for many times - what version control to use?

I know I want something distributed. I know I want to go away from arch/bazaar as they are not maintained anymore. However where to go? Mercurial? Bzr? Darcs? All of them seem to be good candidates, but I don't see much difference. I'd like to use something in Python as it's something what I can fix in case of problems (well I don't want to fix that, but who knows …).

I like bzr, but it's still quite moving target. Anyway it has some interesting ideas and it's probably what I will use at the end.

Well almost :-). But this is just a reminder for anybody trying to write 100th clone of Total Commander or any "great" software as seen on other platform. Another example might be SiDict which has been recently announced. It has nothing more than StarDict, but it was written from scratch…

As you might have noted in Wammu 0.14 announcement, I made Wammu for Windows reality. At the end there is more support for that than I expected :-). All you need it to download full installer and everything will be done automatically including start menu entry.

Wammu on Windows looks almost identically as GTK version on Linux, there is really no big difference as you can see from screenshot.

It revived my memories about creating native Windows application years ago as I used same tool for creating instalator (Inno Setup). It works still same way and is very easy to use even when I didn't remember anything from time I created installator for CodeConv.

While looking for modem driver for Alcatel One Touch 535 for Windows (thanks Alcatel for removing support for old phones!), I found the mobile phone directory website. There are nice reviews of phones and I quickly decided to add it to linked content in phone database. So enjoy more information about phones!

BTW: does anybody have that stupid inf file for OT535?