I’m heading off to Norway tomorrow on the university orchestra tour, so will be away from the internet for a week.
So, Bongo 0.3.0 was released yesterday. It has some interesting new features, most notably CalDAV support! I just finished the Debian packages of 0.3.0:
bongoproject (0.3.0-1) experimental; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
* Added bongoproject to bongoproject-tools depends. (Closes: #438836)
* debian/patches:
+ Removed apache-config.diff -- now upstream.
+ Removed sqlite-3.3.17.diff -- now upstream.
+ Removed hawkeye-apache.diff -- now upstream.
+ Removed smtpd-rset.diff -- now upstream.
+ Removed change-libexecdir.diff -- not necessary.
+ Updated remove-bongo-external.diff.
+ Added standalone-etc-default.diff -- allows bongo-standalone to get
options from /etc/default/bongoproject.
* Moved bongoproject-tools to pycentral.
* debian/copyright:
+ Removed cURL license info. This is now gone from import/.
+ Added myself and email addresses.
+ Added information about having repacked the tarball.
* Bumped Standards-Version to 3.7.3.
* debian/control:
+ Corrected typo in long descriptions.
+ Added Homepage field.
+ Added Vcs-{Git,Browser} fields.
+ Added python-lxml build-dep and bongoproject-web dep.
+ Removed ldap-utils and slapd deps.
+ Changed bongoproject-dbg to Priority: extra.
+ Misc. dependency updates.
+ Changed bongoproject to Arch: all.
* debian/rules:
+ Updated install/python-bongoproject rule.
+ Removed libexecdir hack.
+ Added rule to remove empty /usr/lib directory from bongoproject-web.
+ Added --enable-debug-cflags configure argument to produce a proper dbg
package.
* debian/*.install: Updated list of files to be installed.
* debian/*-overrides/: Removed lintian & linda overrides.
* debian/README.Debian: Updated instructions.
* debian/bongoproject.postinst: Added call to "bongo-config install".
* Renamed libbongoproject0-dev package to libbongoproject-dev.
* Added new package, libbongoproject-runtime, to contain .so files for use
with the tools.
* debian/bongoproject.default: Added comments, updated and modified for use
with the new bongo-standalone agent.
-- Jonny Lamb Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:17:45 +0000
Visit Installation/Debian for instructions on getting these packages. I’ll try and get these uploaded to Debian very soon.
I got a little bored of looking at gitweb with no syntax highlighting, so I shoved in support for Enscript:
Also, it’s easier to select source straight from the browser without the line numbers prefixing every line — something one does every day, of course:
Of course, there are a few bugs and limitations in this. I just wanted to blog with some pretty pictures, I suppose. Now I can see why I’ve never touched perl before though.
I’ve been messing with Empathy recently while setting up a Jabber server, and I thought I’d try out telepathy-butterfly (the Telepathy MSN connection manager). The packages in unstable/experimental kind-of worked, but there were some distinct features missing. Upstream’s devel branches of the three main components (telepathy-butterfly, pymsn and telepathy-python) contained most of the functionality I was after. It seems the last release (which is packaged) is rather old.
I created some packages of these snapshots. Add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://jonnylamb.com/debian/telepathy-butterfly ./
And execute:
sudo apt-get install python-telepathy python-msn telepathy-butterfly
So, I’ve been getting into this photography lark recently, and today I tried out a panoramic shot for the first time. I used hugin to stitch the photos together, and quickly found that more control points = better stitching. This is my first attempt and have learnt that taking the photos at 4pm in a really windy day, is not a great idea. Although I am really pleased about the stitching, the differing colours of photos makes it obvious where the stitches have taken place. The wind blowing the trees also didn’t help.
So, tomorrow I’m going to attempt to have another go in perhaps a few other places at 12pm, or whenever the Sun is directly above, and hopefully I can patch together a seamless shot. Fingers crossed.
Update: The photo uploaded to flickr is a little small and horrible. Here is a link to a 1.3MB JPEG file of the same thing. The original is 10MB or so, but I don’t think I’ll put that on the web as it isn’t actually any good as a panoramic shot — I’m just really pleased the stitching is good!
Looking at these instructions for SynCE just sickens me. I really want to strongly suggest one doesn’t follow the instructions, but not only does it look as if I’m too late, it also highlights how horrible the SynCE documentation is. Currently the new docs are stored in a less-than-finished docbook file in Subversion: http://synce.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/synce/trunk/synce-docs/. If you’re good with Docbook and want to help, email me.
On other SynCE notes, the new site is ready, but the docs are preventing me using the site.
Debian BBQ tomorrow. Lack of laptop means lack of general communication.
Bongo has just made it into Debian Experimental, as shown on its packages.debian.org page.
This is good because it’s made it through the NEW queue, and so any subsequent version will be uploaded into Debian a lot quicker. To install this straight from Debian, add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list: (Note: You must be running the unstable distribution)
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main
The version in the archive is 0.2.0-3. This has not been put into my repository on my site yet. Here is the changelog entry:
bongoproject (0.2.0-3) experimental; urgency=low
* Initial release into Debian (Closes: #419476)
* Changed ${Source-Version} to ${binary:Version} and made deps binNMU
compatible.
* Wrapped deps and build-deps.
* Added debug package bongoproject-dbg.
* Added python dependency to bongoproject-tools.
* Updated short descriptions.
* Updated copyright file.
* Added README.Package file to explain some of the library importing
stuff.
* Added patch remove-bongo-external.diff to remove the dependency on
bongo.external python libraries.
* Added python-vobject, python-simplejson and python-dateutil to
python-bongoproject Depends.
* Added python-simpletal to bongoproject-web Depends.
* Updated copyright to use new FSF address.
-- Jonny Lamb Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:08:57 +0100
Hopefully in the near future I should create some packages for Ubuntu and Debian (etch) for 0.2.0-3, although as you can see from the changelog entry, there’s no real feature difference. Also should get my git repository for package management up soon, when I get my new server. Bear with me.
P.S. If you are reading this in a feed reader, or through the planet, then visit my site and check out my new theme. It’s nice.
I haven’t blogged in a little while, so I thought I’d break the trend.
Recently I started adding CalDAV support into Bongo. This is actually progressing very well. I’m working on the sundial branch in Subversion. If you want to try it out, then you can checkout using:
svn co http://svn.gna.org/svn/bongo/branches/sundial/
And then install how one normally would from source. To try out the CalDAV support, you must be running standalone — Apache will simply not work at the moment. Point your client at:
http://server:port/dav/username/calendar/
You should be asked for username and password, but the auth system is a little broken at the moment. It is next on my list of things to do with Sundial, and hopefully I’ll commit a fix for that tonight, but I might not have time..
Remember that this is three or four days old and not only will it have bugs, but if you glance at the code, there are many TODOs floating around, so this is very alpha quality software. With respect to CalDAV client support, I’ve done most of the testing on Mozilla Sunbird and in my opinion that has the best CalDAV support, but Evolution should work (it did last night)! Come find me on IRC if you have any questions.
Everyone seems to be blogging about it, so I thought I’d join the crowd.
I’ve already been to some talks on Hildon, Xul, Telepathy, memory usage, accessibility and collaborative document editing. There has been a mixed amount of interestingness throughout the talks, but generally it’s great!
Tomorrow starts the core schedule and there are some great talks planned, including lots of Maemo/embedded ones.
And just when he thought he was in the clear…
