Michal Čihař - Archive for Oct. 6, 2010

Ukolovnik 1.3

Thanks to contributions of other people, I can now announce new release of Ukolovnik. It brings theme updates and en_GB translation.

Full list of changes:

  • Explicitely mention that we do not provide authentication (bug #993).
  • Updated Oxygen theme.
  • Added en_GB translation.

Making Gammu use GLib

I had this topic in mind for quite a long time, but it got more recently more attention because of discussions on gammu-users mailing list. Gammu should use some library for do basic stuff like strings or date manipulations, logging and so on.

The reason is that having own implementation of all that is not really useful and just source of another amount of bugs. Currently mi intention is to use GLib, simply because I don't know any C alternative (though there are probably lot of C++ cross platform libraries).

Of course the biggest question is how to make the change, because it will be obviously intrusive and making such big changes will probably lead to several months of work without really making another release. Even if it will be done on separate branch (what would be most likely the case), developers will spend most of time on this issue and not much time will be spent on bug fixes (and backporting them).