Thu May 26 23:57:48 UTC 2005
Meatoo command-line client
Heres a command-line client for the Meatoo database.
It uses XML-RPC and should be simple enough to look at the Python code if you want to write your own in another language. Each method returns a nested list of 10 strings per package.
Heres a simple Ruby client to call the getPackage method:
Look at send_request in the Python client for a list of other methods you can call.
It uses XML-RPC and should be simple enough to look at the Python code if you want to write your own in another language. Each method returns a nested list of 10 strings per package.
Heres a simple Ruby client to call the getPackage method:
require "xmlrpc/client"
server = XMLRPC::Client.new("gentooexperimental.org", "/RPC2", "8888")
print server.call("getPackage", "prboom")
Look at send_request in the Python client for a list of other methods you can call.
Sat May 7 00:20:24 UTC 2005
Trustee Elections
Its election time and frankly I haven't got a clue who to vote for.
A few trustees nominating themselves for election have listed what
they have done, which is great, but we're still clueless about
what the Foundation has been doing as a whole or voting on because the
mailing list archive hasn't been made public. Could someone at least
tell us what the 12 month hold-up has been? Maybe someone can help
get us that archive before elections are over.
Thank you Sven for being the first current trustee to really speak up. Lets hope you've started a trend.
A lot of you nominating yourselves are saying something like "I won't say much because most of you know me". We have hundreds of developers now and I think I can safely say most of us don't know each other. For some bizarre reason I think I can name what text editors and desktop enviroments a lot of you use, but I couldn't tell you much else, and I really don't want to base my vote on that. So please speak up and we'll have more informed voters. Tell us what you'd like to see changed and what role you'd like to take.
Thank you Sven for being the first current trustee to really speak up. Lets hope you've started a trend.
A lot of you nominating yourselves are saying something like "I won't say much because most of you know me". We have hundreds of developers now and I think I can safely say most of us don't know each other. For some bizarre reason I think I can name what text editors and desktop enviroments a lot of you use, but I couldn't tell you much else, and I really don't want to base my vote on that. So please speak up and we'll have more informed voters. Tell us what you'd like to see changed and what role you'd like to take.
Thu May 5 20:25:41 UTC 2005
wxWidgets Help Wanted
If any developers out there are just not having any luck finding enough work
to do we have a few seats left in the wxWidgets (formerly known as wxWindows,
thanks for "suggesting" we pick a new name, Microsoft!) herd.
wxGTK-2.6.0 is in portage and I'd love to get wxMacOS in now. If there are any Mac people out there who can come up with an ebuild and test it (I don't have a Mac), it'd be great.
wxGTK has been retrofitted with SLOTs for 2.4 and 2.6. wxPython is now also slotted and we're the first distribution (I think) to use the new MultiVersionInstalls.
There is no official 2.4.2.4 release of wxPython available upstream that works with MultiVersions but I've modified Gentoo's to use wxversion.
Thanks Diego a.k.a. flameeyes for the new wxlib eclass and preparing the way for wxMac (and wxMotif/wxX11?). And thanks always to the users who have helped find and fix problems in wxEverything.
wxGTK-2.6.0 is in portage and I'd love to get wxMacOS in now. If there are any Mac people out there who can come up with an ebuild and test it (I don't have a Mac), it'd be great.
wxGTK has been retrofitted with SLOTs for 2.4 and 2.6. wxPython is now also slotted and we're the first distribution (I think) to use the new MultiVersionInstalls.
There is no official 2.4.2.4 release of wxPython available upstream that works with MultiVersions but I've modified Gentoo's to use wxversion.
Thanks Diego a.k.a. flameeyes for the new wxlib eclass and preparing the way for wxMac (and wxMotif/wxX11?). And thanks always to the users who have helped find and fix problems in wxEverything.