Michal Čihař - Archive for Jan. 1, 2014

For quite some time I used to produce Windows builds for both Wammu and Gammu using cross compiling on Linux. But this has proven to produce some errors and needed my time to maintain the cross compilation environment. I've decided to stop producing Windows binaries and I don't expect to get back to that anytime soon.

This is actually no news for Wammu, where I've removed Windows builds some about two years ago as they proven to be too broken for normal usage, but for Gammu it's new as previous release had Windows builds. I've lost the cross compilation environment due to hard drive failure and restoring it is simply too much of work and still will not allow me to build complete release (I've not managed to build Python modules properly).

So if anybody is interested in Windows binaries, he needs to produce them on Windows. I can help with fixing code or existing setup scripts (they probably need adjustments as they were tweaked for cross compiling), but somebody has to setup the environment with all dependencies and test the build on Windows.

Gammu 1.34.0 has been just released. It has been more than year from last Gammu release and it's time to release all new features and bugfixes.

Full list of changes:

• Add phone power ON/OFF function.
• Removed deprecated Python modules gammu.Data and gammu.Worker.
• Store network name and code in SMSD tables.
• Fixed build with recent clang compiler.
• Fixed several possible issues found by Coverity scan.
• Fixed possible crash on SMSD startup.
• Fixed decoding unicode SMS messages.
• Added identification for several Nokia phones.
• Fixed compilation issues on various platforms.
• SMSD now honors loglevel for all logging targets.
• SMSD can automatically hangup incoming calls.
• Correctly detect Network errors.

You can download it from http://wammu.eu/download/.

I will not make any promises for future releases (if there will be any) as the tool is not really in active development.

It seems that the 0.37 release was not that good as I hoped for, so here comes another bugfix release. So here comes Wammu 0.38.

The list of changes is not really huge:

• Compatibility with latest wxPython releases.
• Fixed corrupted appdata metadata.
• Fixed broken desktop file due to Chinese translation.
• Translation updates.

I will not make any promises for future releases (if there will be any) as the tool is not really in active development.

Weblate 2.1 has been released today. It comes with native Mercurial support, user interface cleanup and various other fixes.

Full list of changes for 2.1:

• Added support for Mercurial repositories.
• Replaced Glyphicon font by Awesome.
• Added icons for social authentication services.
• Better consistency of button colors and icons.
• Documentation improvements.
• Various bugfixes.
• Automatic hiding of columns in translation listing for small screens.
• Changed configuration of filesystem paths.
• Improved SSH keys handling and storage.
• Improved repository locking.
• Customizable quality checks per source string.

You can find more information about Weblate on http://weblate.org, the code is hosted on Github. If you are curious how it looks, you can try it out on demo server. You can login there with demo account using demo password or register your own user. Ready to run appliances will be soon available in SUSE Studio Gallery.

Weblate is also being used https://hosted.weblate.org/ as official translating service for phpMyAdmin, Gammu, Weblate itself and others.

If you are free software project which would like to use Weblate, I'm happy to help you with set up or even host Weblate for you.

Further development of Weblate would not be possible without people providing donations, thanks to everybody who have helped so far!

Weblate has started as a translation system tightly bound to Git version control system. This was in no means design decision, but rather it was the version control I've used. But this has shown not to be sufficient and other systems were requested as well. And Mercurial is first of them to be supported.

Weblate 2.0 already had separated VCS layer and adding another system to that is quite easy if you know the VCS you're adding. Unfortunately this wasn't the case for me with Mercurial as I've never used it for anything more serious than cloning a repository, committing fixes and pushing it back. Weblate needs a bit more than that, especially in regard to remote branches. But nevertheless I've figured out all operations and the implementation is ready in our Git.

In case somebody is interested in adding support for another version control, patches are always welcome!

Weblate 2.0 has been released today. It comes with lot of improvements in backend and completely new user interface.

Full list of changes for 2.0:

• New responsive UI using Bootstrap.
• Rewritten VCS backend.
• Documentation improvements.
• Added whiteboard for site wide messages.
• Configurable strings priority.
• Added support for JSON file format.
• Fixed generating mo files in certain cases.
• Added support for GitLab notifications.
• Added support for disabling translation suggestions.
• Django 1.7 support.
• ACL projects now have user management.
• Extended search possibilites.
• Give more hints to translators about plurals.
• Fixed Git repository locking.
• Compatibility with older Git versions.
• Improved ACL support.
• Added buttons for per language quotes and other special chars.
• Support for exporting stats as JSONP.

You can find more information about Weblate on http://weblate.org, the code is hosted on Github. If you are curious how it looks, you can try it out on demo server. You can login there with demo account using demo password or register your own user. Ready to run appliances will be soon available in SUSE Studio Gallery.

Weblate is also being used https://hosted.weblate.org/ as official translating service for phpMyAdmin, Gammu, Weblate itself and others.

If you are free software project which would like to use Weblate, I'm happy to help you with set up or even host Weblate for you.

Further development of Weblate would not be possible without people providing donations, thanks to everybody who have helped so far!

The biggest part of this HackWeek will be spent on Weblate. The major task is to complete new UI for it. There have been already some blog posts about that here, so regular readers of my blog already know it is using Twitter Bootstrap.

Today it has reached point where I think it's good enough for wider testing and I've deployed it at Hosted Weblate (see Weblate website for conditions for getting hosting there).

I expect there will be some rough edges, so don't hesitate to report any issues, so that I can quickly fix them.

As a first tiny project in this HackWeek, Enca 1.16 has been just released. It mostly brings small code cleanups and missing aliases for languages, but fixes also some minor bugs found by Coverity Scan.

If you don't know Enca, it is an Extremely Naive Charset Analyser. It detects character set and encoding of text files and can also convert them to other encodings using either a built-in converter or external libraries and tools like libiconv, librecode, or cstocs.

Full list of changes for 1.16 release:

• Fixed typo in Belarusian language name
• Added aliases for Chinese and Yugoslavian languages

Still enca is in maintenance mode only and I have no intentions to write new features. However there is no limitation to other contributors :-).

You can download from http://cihar.com/software/enca/.

It has been more than three years since last release of Wammu and I've decided it's time to push changes made in the Git repos to the users. So here comes Wammu 0.37.

The list of changes is not really huge, but in total that means 1470 commits in git (most of that are translations):

• Translation updates (Indonesian, Spanish, ...).
• Add export of contact to XML.
• Add Get all menu option.
• Added appdata metadata.

I will not make any promises for future releases (if there will be any) as the tool is not really in active development.

For quite some time, I've been running translation server for projects where I am involved at l10n.cihar.com. Historically this used Pootle, but when we had more and more problems with that, I've written Weblate and started to use it there.

As Weblate become more popular and I got requests to help people with running it, I've realized that it might be good idea to run server where I could host translations for other projects. This is when Hosted Weblate was born.

After some time, I've realized that it really makes little sense to run and maintain separate servers for these sets of projects, so I've decided to move all translations from l10n.cihar.com to hosted.weblate.org. Today this move was completed by moving translations for phpMyAdmin.