Boring technical bit
It’s been a hard week. I’ve been doing some major (more repetitive than conceptual) refactoring of the Glom source code, to make it use smartpointers for lots of the information, instead of copying by values lots. Copying by value gave me stability when I wasn’t sure how things should work, but […]

Jonathan Jongsma has recently pushed, pulled, and tweaked the gtkmm manual a bit. He’s added extra semantic markup and created a stylesheet to present it properly. It’s a big improvement on the old non-styled version. For instance, the view part of the gtkmm treeview section.
Jonathan Jongsma is the kind of person that I’d like to […]

I’ve put lots of work into Glom over the last few days. There are a couple of nice new features, needed for (my idea of) version 1.0 completeness. I guess this will be available in Ubuntu (maybe only Dapper) real quick, thanks to Daniel Holbach. It is a little difficult to get all the dependencies […]

Harish, we had a similar problem in gtkmm. Apparently you need to tell autoconf to use a different tar format that supports longer names. I guess there are obscure backwards-compatibility reasons why this can’t be the default.

It’s the new year and I’m back in Munich. Working on the project for Web.de in Karlsruhe was great but being away from home during the week is always difficult. I’ll try extra hard to work only in Munich now.
I spent Christmas in Karlsruhe with the various parts of my girlfriend’s family there. Then we […]