People often complain that autotools is complicated. But the alternatives generally involve a learning curve, require large changes to existing projects, and don’t provide the features or the command-line interface that we’ve become used to with autotools, making life difficult for people building tarballs, and for distros’ packaging tools. One of the biggest annoyances with [...]

Going Home I’ve spent the weekend at GUADEC in Gran Canaria but I fly back today to be at home for wee Liam who I really miss. I’ve noticed that people didn’t really understand that for the past year and a half I’ve spent half the week taking care of him, and the rest of [...]

As per tradition, the new Openismus T-Shirts are ready for GUADEC 2009 (GCDS). They are again unlike last year’s, and simple enough to wear among civilians. We were a little rushed this year but they turned out nice. Thanks to Kat for fixing things in Inkscape and getting them done. We only printed a limited [...]