Archive for September, 2008
Monday, September 29th, 2008
KeYeR has a brief blurb up on the end of the Tango conference, with a link to some pics for those of use who didn’t attend. He also has a message for everyone:
I really want to thank all of you who came for all of the great fun - those who didn’t should really regret.
Thanks for rubbing it in! Be sure to tune in to his blog for updates on the conference videos. Looking forward to those.
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
A couple of days ago, Michel Fortin announced an updated D for XCode. Mac users take notice:
* Improved code folding.
* Fixed a problem where a wrong linker command was issued under Xcode 3.1.
Known Issues:
* Nested comments and documentation comments are ignored by the syntax
highlighter in Xcode 3.
* Files with the .d extensions are given the “sourcecode.dtrace” type
instead of “sourcecode.d” while first added to a project. This is because
Xcode already has a rule associating .d files with dtrace which takes
precedence. You must open the info panel for your files and manually select
the “sourcecode.d” file type. This does not apply to Xcode 2.x.
* The debugger doesn’t demangle function names. This can probably be fixed
by patching GDB.
* The debugger does not show very intelligently the content of objects.
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Mike Wey has announced version 1.0 of GtkD. Rather than pretend like I know anything about it, I’ll just reproduce the newsgroup announcement here.
GtkD is a D binding and OO wrapper of Gtk+ and is released on the LGPL
license.
New in this Release:
* Gda addon brought up to date with wrapper changes
* out, ref and array parameters should be wrapped correctly
* Return value from event handlers is now passed to Gtk
* on*Event functions added to gtk.Widget to call the default
event handler
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
Gregor has pushed out a new release of DSSS to correct some problems with the last one. Here’s the changelog:
- Rebuild: Removed some needless errors that could cause problems with
using D-2 keywords in D-1 code.
- Rebuild: Fixed -exec. (see ticket #203)
- Rebuild: Documented -gui. (see ticket #180)
- Fixed installation of debug libraries. (see ticket #185)
- Substantially reduced the default verbosity. -v now gives the
previous verbosity, -vv puts rebuild in verbose mode as well.
- Rebuild: Allow general link flags in pragma(link) (for Mac OS X
frameworks, etc.
- Rebuild: -S with forward slashes now works on Windows. (see ticket
#182)
- defaulttargets with forward slashes now works on Windows.
- Multiple ‘..’ elements in section names will now be interpreted
correctly. (see ticket #198)
- Rebuild: Fixed library-linking problems.
He also has repeated his call for help with development. If you have the time and the interest, I’m sure he’d be happy to hear from you.
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
After a long dry spell, Gregor has released DSSS 0.77. This version introduces a major new feature along with several bug fixes and enhancements. From the NG announcement:
- Rebuild: Merged DMD 2.019.
- Rebuild: dmd-win-tango now correctly uses -ltango-base-dmd instead
of -lphobos
- Rebuild: Fixed a pipe left open in Windows.
- User -S and -I now come before system -S and -I options, so users can
override system defaults more easily.
- Rebuild: Builds are run concurrently across all processors, or any
number of processes specified explicitly with the -j option (except
on Windows)
Gregor also made a request for assistance. Because of his workload as a graduate student, he doesn’t have a whole log of time to devote to DSSS these days. So he’s “looking for help. Anything from handling tickets to porting help to anything else you can think of…” And he’d really appreciate it. And so, I’m sure, would the legion of DSSS users. I’d love to contribute something myself, but I hardly contribute to my own projects right now. So if anyone can give Gregor a hand with anything(*cough* concurrent builds on Windows *cough*), please dive in!
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