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.
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!
Wammu now finally has initial support for Gammu Phone Database. I talked a lot about this and now I finally wrote some code for it. It allows you to fill in values in program, all basic information (phone manufacturer and model, connection type), are automatically prefilled from what Wammu already knows. The dialog itself is more or less a copy of same web page, as you can see on following image:
I just released new version of Gammu, you can download it from download server. There is quite a lot of changes:
This release first comes with precompiled Windows binaries and Windows installer!
After some playing with distutils to make cross compilation using them possible, I finally gave up. Maybe I did not understand some part of guide, but resulting library only crashes Python.
So I googled once more and I found another approach to cross compile Python extensions for Windows on Linux.
And it was quite simple to do it. First you need Windows installer for Python. Now you need to get dll and includes out of this. I decided to leave hard work on Wine and hoped it will work:
/usr/bin/msiexec /i /tmp/python-2.5.msi
Now you have installed Python somewhere in ~/.wine/drive_c.
All what is remaining is tuning of makefiles from original howto.
You can also look on code for python-gammu which deals this issue.
Thanks to Matthew Mueller for great howto! BTW: I tested it with Python 2.5 and MinGW 3.4.5.