Today I decided to go through open Gammu bugs and try to fix some of them. There were trying many trivial bugs, which I'm now fixing, the harder ones will there stay for some other time or other volunteer (feel free to take some!).
There are still some issues remaining, but I will go through rest today and tomorrow and make testing release after that. So far ChangeLog length looks quite impressive :-).
Thanks to Rene Peters, next Wammu release will come with tray icon support. I was always too lazy to look how it should be implemented and it turns out to be only few lines of code :-).
Anyway if there is something else you miss in Wammu, don't afraid to ask for it, there is always a chance, that somebody will implement it.
As there were some problems with Wammu 0.18 on Windows, I'm going to release 0.19 this week. The only new major thing will be more comfortable editing of recipients of SMS with support for loading and saving.
If you have some time, please test curent snapshots and report any found problems, so that we can have perfect release this time :-).
I just added to Wammu support for SMS recipient lists. For now there is no interaction with possible lists in phone, but you can create and save your own lists.
Lists are saved in plain text files, one phone per line. I guess such list will be easy to create from any application.
PS: I hope this feature won't be used for SMS spamming :-).
Now I'm in state when I'm deciding what to put to next Wammu version. This is always hard, because I don't get any feedback from most of users. I sometimes find note in random forum, that user wants dock icon.
Anyway I'd really appreciate some feedback in bug tracking system. Write there features you would like to see or post comments to existing reports, that you want to see this feature.
This will help me to choose which one to implement in upcoming Wammu version. You can see what I've chosen for now in bug #252.
After long development, Wammu 0.18 has been just released. New features:
Yes you read it correctly, here finally comes Wammu with configuration wizard and talkback to phone database! Besides this huge change, this release will make also Windows users happy, because it finally contains current python-gammu and Gammu.
python-gammu 0.19 has been just released. New features:
I just released new version of Gammu, you can download it from download server. Changes to latest testing version are relatively small:
Stay tuned, release weekend will continue ;-).
I still more and more think, that I should move out of Bazaar to some more maintained piece of software for version control. The biggest problem I currently see, that I was not able to convert by Bazaar repositories to some other format. I tried to convert to Bazaar-NG by booth BzrTools and Tailor, but none of them succeeded, then I tried conversion to Git, but Tailor failed also on this task.
Maybe I will try Subversion, which is now very widely used software, although it has some annoyances. I originally wanted distributed VCS, because I was often offline at home, but this is not the case anymore, so using centralised VCS on my own server should not be a big problem.
Yesterday, I hacked last part migration to new Wammu configuration scheme (Wammu now does not have separate configuration to Gammu, but shares it) together with brand new [configuration wizard].
Before I release all those major changes as 0.18, I'd like to have some feedback what this change breaks. There is lot of new code within this release and I'd really like to avoid releasing 0.19 shortly after this just because some stupid error.
So if you have time, please download snapshot and try to work with it for a while. Report found problems to bug tracker. Thanks!