Incoherent mumblings
Archive for July 2006
This fixes the problem I mentioned before.
[Edit Sat Jul 29 10:27:39 BST 2006]
I’ve just uploaded a Debian package of 0.9.2. Enjoy!
I noticed yesterday that synching was failing due to some bug in pydelicious. That was the last straw and now pydelicious is being chucked out of epilicious. It is a module written by Frank Timmerman, and it can be found here (when it isn’t totally infested with Wiki spam anyway). I was happy to be able to use it for as long as I have since it allowed me to concentrate on other parts of epilicious. Now however epilicious is working fine but pydelicious isn’t. I am not interested in fixing pydelicious since I think it’s a bit of mess and it’d be difficult for me not to do a clean-up at the same time 
That would most likely take more time than writing something custom made for epilicious.
I’ve written a minimal Python module that offers exactly as much of the del.icio.us API as epilicious needs. If someone’s interested in extending it into a more full-fledged del.icio.us module—be my guest. You can find it in the development BZR repo (libepilicious/delicious.py).
I’ll be making another release of epilicious ASAP.
Some kind soul sent me a Russian translation for epilicious… which I quickly lost. I guess I really should move mails to a rubbish bin rather than delete them completely.
Oh, I’d love to receive another email with that translation 
Please!
The other day I had some problems early on when trying to compile from GNOME CVS using jhbuild. From a sudden surge in brain activity I got the idea to build a release of the development version of GNOME—the 1.15.x series—the lates one is 2.15.4.
I got some help from Elijah Newren’s post on compiling GNOME with jhbuild. Using the links from the release notice on FootNotes I got as far as
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% jhbuild bootstrap
without problems. Then I got stuck:
% jhbuild -m \
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/teams/releng/2.15.4/gnome-2.15.4.modules \
> build
jhbuild build: dependent module "libdaemon" not found
usage: jhbuild [ -f config ] command [ options ... ]
My first thought was that installing the Debian package libdaemon0 might solve it. Of course it didn’t. Then I remembered that during bootstrap Python 2.4.3 was downloaded and installed, despite being installed on my system already. Not too much of a surprise then that libdaemon0 didn’t do any good.
After looking at jhbuild modulesets for previous releases as well as the bleeding CVS moduleset I got an idea. I saved the 2.15.4 moduleset locally and modified freedesktop-2.15.4.modules to include the following lines:
<tarball id="libdaemon" version="0.10">
<source href="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/libdaemon-0.10.tar.gz" />
<branch checkoutdir="libdaemon" module="trunk" repo="libdaemon.0pointer.de"/>
</tarball>
It’s compiling rather happily at the moment so I’m optimistic… I’ll add a note if things go pear-shaped…
I’ve just added the plugin Ultimate Tag Warrior to my site. I’ve spent some time adding tags to posts, but I’m not done with it yet. The main reason for this exercise was that I really wanted a tag cloud It just seems like a much better idea than using categories (I used them as tags anyway).
I’m pretty happy with the result. I just have to find the time to add tags to all posts so that the cloud really represents what I write about.