Older blog entries for LSchiere (starting at number 20)

singularly unproductive day. discovered libxode is leaky. fairly majorly. looked towards fixing a couple of more random segfaults in gaim. discovered why our "ordered" insert isn't acting very ordered, i need to write a GComparFunc. in fact, i need one for groups, one for persons, and one for buddies. but i didn't write them yet. faceprint started making the other protocols person-aware. that's a good thing: freaky things happen when you sign on a protocol that isn't person-aware. (for those who aren't familiar with what i'm doing, faceprint and i are working on a gaim source tree, re-doing the buddy list internals and display to support what i call persons, where a person is a collection of buddies that are all the same real-life person. everybuddy calls this concept a "contact".). I've also started in on the blist manipulation code, I've got a dialog that will eventually allow you to add/edit a person mostly displaying right, now i just have to make it do stuff and display data and not just widgets.

in other gaim news, some idiot has been posting to the gaim-devel list. on one hand, its great that the list is actually getting used. on the other hand, we've explained why encrypting the .gaimrc provides a false sense of increased security umpteen times now. People don't seem to even listen beyond the fact that we disagree. they know it all; us developers know nothing. chipx86 will be posting an entry to our faq giving a summery of what he and i had to repeat again in a series of emails today, that way we can hopefully reduce future instances of this request to a reference to the faq. which leads to my second most frequent gripe: chipx86 and i go to the trouble to write a faq that answers a significant number of the questions that hit the sourceforge forum, the #gaim irc channel, and the bug and support requests. but no one reads the faq, even though its linked to from gaim's home page. sometimes they don't even read it if you tell them to go directly there (give them the url). what's worse is when they try to tell me that their question isn't answered, when i wrote that part of the faq. </end gripe>

YEAH!!!!!!!! it looks like we finally have the new buddy list online tab display for gaim working! only bugs left will be the odd ones that you don't hit right off the bat with a couple minutes of use. its not quite doing priority right, faceprint has started work towards fixing that tonight, and tomorrow i can start looking at the edittree code to let you manipulate the list contents. I'm a month behind unfortunately, which means I won't finish this before i go on vacation next week. I'm looking forward to vacation, but i'm not looking forward to 2.5 weeks of inactivity just as sean gets ready to move towards a very feature rich 0.60 release and gaim's official repository starts changing. Hopefully faceprint will keep on top of things while i'm gone and we won't have to catch back up too much. I'm finding that debuging goes much more easily when i have someone (faceprint) to help me work through things with than when i'm working alone. also learning alot about gtk, which is half of why i started doing this. so i can't complain too much i guess, things aren't going badly, just not as well as i nievely had hoped.

still debugging person support in gaim, found quite a few bugs in the online tab display, but still butting my head against 3 of them: 1)gtk crital warnings, 2)doing something wrong with log_timers so a person doesn't sign off correctly. 3)this is the most troublesome: 2 accounts on the same protocol seem to work fine, but 2 accounts on different protocols, only the first on seems to display. very odd.

vacation is coming up, am looking forward to heading down to florida for 2 weeks :-), even though it does mean summer is almost over :-(

got things compiling, with much help from chipx86. faceprint figured out where the corruption was happening, I got that fixed. having a TON of problems with set_buddy(), and since that's called whenever someone comes online, goes away, or idle, or in any other way changes status, getting that working is a big deal. it would help if i understood gtk a little bit better. it would also help if the gtk critical warnings gave me a little more information...

madscientist:
the reason for wanting backwards compatability with gettext 0.10 is that alot of us don't have 0.11 on our systems, and because trying to support both gettext 0.10 and 0.11, the many various versions of autoconf (2.13, 2.52-54, 2.54 not being compatable with 2.53...), and automake 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6 (also not entirely compatable with each other), and the various combinations of those packages people might have is next to impossible. in #gaim on opn we are getting people who have all sorts of combinations, and we have for the most part had to just say "okay, if you don't have versions x y and z respectively, you are sol". That's not an ideal situation.

Haven't posted in quite some time now, haven't had alot of time to work on gaim, and when i do, i'm stuck against this one problem, serv_got_update() isn't being called, so no one appears to sign on. Can't figure out why its not being called. in other news, chipx86 and faceprint still don't have the libxode move figured out, so i can't compile Gaim anyway. all very fustrating.

as far as work goes, i'm starting to really hate rtlinux, and wishing that the daq application was done being ported to rtai, mostly cause i can't seem to get rtlinux to compile.

gaim
faceprint and i decided that his xml blist work and my person work overlap enough it doesn't make sense to be working on 2 differnet patches, so he set up a cvs server (neither of us have access to the one on sf.net), and we've merged our work. several steps backward for a long-er term net gain. currently having trouble getting people to show up in the right group, not sure why yet. also, i put the edit tree back in, but it doesn't do anything but sit there right now. it shows groups and the persons in them.

Gaim:
After a day at work, spent the afternoon with the family, then worked on a patch KingAnt was having trouble with, between us, most of the effort on his side, I think we've squashed the group renaming bug. Problem was that when you renamed a group, the change wasn't uploaded to the server. Kingant squashed that easily, but doing so introduced some other issues, basically, it came down to calling functions in the right order. Given how much I've been working with the buddy list code on the core side of things as it is, I picked it up for him... :-)
so hopefully JSeymour can commit that tomorrow, and one more thing can drop off the TODO list. Hopefully I'll make some significant progress on the edit code for the blist with person support also. of course this patch adds in an additional function to have edit support into, but that's life for you.

bytesplit: obscene and/or profane ranting is never acceptable. In grade school I was taught that "two wrongs do not make a right," you would do well to take note of that. You might also take note of the fact that people have only "instigated" your behavior after you have over-reacted, or simply reacted inappopriately to comments others ment to be helpfull, or at very least, innocent. By and large, I've watched this community attempt to help you become a productive member, to channel your energy in a constructive manner, but you continue to lash out. Perrier gave a well-reasoned, calm, logical statement of his opinion, supported by concrete assertions. Your reply is generalized, vague, and inflamatory. I believe you are mistaking the optimism and hope for change of some members for friendship, and believe that the diaries of far more people express disgust and dislike of your behavior than express even the mildest sort of support or tollerance.

bytesplit: ChipX86 stalk you? talk about an off the wall, and thoughtless assertion. who's been on advogato longer? chipx86. who was in the various chat rooms you visited him on opn longer? again, chipx86. its clear to anyone familiar with this situation who's been stalking who, so stop lying through your teeth. As for the maturity level, again, ChipX86 comes out clearly as the more mature. You are the one constantly ranting about everyone who you percieve to have offended your delecate ego, while ChipX86 on the other hand has even tried to put the past behind him and help you. Any sensible person would have done the same instead of dredging up the past with each new interaction.