[Lintouch-announce] Lintouch Development Weekly News - March 4th, 2004

[Martin Man]

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Lintouch Development Weekly News
http://lintouch.org
March 4th, 2004
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Welcome to the ninth issue of the Lintouch Development Weekly Newsletter.

I'm not going to talk too much today, things are pretty clear. Lintouch 1.0
has been silently released[1]. The good thing is that it's pretty stable.
Runtime and the Server both run on Windows and Linux without problems.
Everything has been packaged and can be installed by point-and-clicking[2]
under windows or apt-get installing[3] under debian.

    1. http://lintouch.org/pipermail/lintouch-announce/2004-March/000011.html
    2. http://lintouch.org/win32
    3. http://lintouch.org/debian

Another good thing is that Runtime has been fully localized to Czech
Language[4]. More translations are waiting for translators. With QT Linguist
it's real peace of cake.

    4. http://lintouch.org/pipermail/lintouch-cvs/2004-February/001175.html

Being tired of simultaneous ICQ conversations we got really geeky and opened
a Lintouch Development IRC Channel. It's much more fun to talk in a huge
group and it has proven to be a rally useful communication medium. You can
find the details in my announcing email[5] or on the web[6].

    5. http://lintouch.org/pipermail/lintouch-dev/2004-February/000420.html
    6. http://lintouch.org/blog/documentation#irc

The IRC channel helped us to fix the two big and for a long time hidden
bugs. One of them being the incorrect exception raising from Python C
Extensions, courtesy goes to Jiri for hunting it down and providing
explanation[7]. The other was well known (not to us) problem with
non-deterministic initialization of static C++ members, here big thanx
goes to Hynek for revealing it in the very last moment and proposing a very
elegant solution[8] (bug never didn't reproduce itself under Linux, but did
thankfully reproduce itself under Windows very often).

    7. http://lintouch.org/pipermail/lintouch-dev/2004-February/000416.html
    8. http://lintouch.org/pipermail/lintouch-dev/2004-February/000435.html

Well, and for the historical record, here is the very first screenshot of
Lintouch Runtime running under the Windows[9].

    9. http://lintouch.org/pipermail/lintouch-dev/2004-February/000452.html

That's all folks for this week, if you have any comments, corrections or
ideas to be published, feel free to contact me directly[0].

    0. mailto:mman at swac.cz.

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