Archive for May, 2010
Monday, May 31st, 2010
Tony Cooper writes on monotone-devel:
I would like to announce the 0.70 release of mtn-browse:
Monotone browser (mtn-browse) is an application for browsing Monotone VCS databases without the need for a workspace. The interface allows one to:
Easily select a revision from within a branch
Find a revision using complex queries
Navigate the contents of ...
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Sunday, May 30th, 2010
This fourth release candidate is dedicated to Lena, the Eurovision Song Contest Winner of 2010 :). It comes with a few new nifty features like an improved changeset browser and enhanced certificate support, as well as a couple of other smaller improvements and bugfixes.
The Tarball and a Mac OS X ...
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
I've just merged a new feature to monotone's mainline which introduces database management features in the next major version. "Huh, database management? What are you talking about?" you might ask. Well, let me explain:
If you work with monotone you know that it has a strong concept of keeping workspace and ...
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Friday, May 21st, 2010
If you haven't got the news already: The Federal Court of Justice in Germany recently declared software patentable without any reasonable limitation (German version on news service heise.de here and here).
While there are many efforts in the United States to fix the brokeness of their patent system - also in ...
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
Apparently there is a new kid on the block when it comes to package managers / software installers on Mac OS X and its dubbed "Homebrew".
While I scrolled down their lengthy list of recipes (they call it "formulas"), I recognized that somebody was already so nice and created such a ...
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
The last couple of days have been very busy in the monotone team: A total of 21 bugs have been processed by the attendees of our little bug hunt day and while it was quite stressful for me to keep track and review everything, it was lots of fun. A ...
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
Auf dem Bild (Quelle: AP) ist zu sehen, wie Abgeordnete des Deutschen Bundestages am heutigen Freitag zur Abstimmung über die 22,4 Mrd. Euro Kredit-Nothilfe für Griechenland schreiten. Ich möchte gar nicht über Sinn und Unsinn dieser Kredite sprechen, nein, ich wundere mich ganz konkret über die in diesem Bild aufgefangene ...
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
I recently created a new cafepress shop for monotone which uses the updated logo and our new claim, "reliable, distributed version control" and I have to say that this looks really cool now.
The reason why I did this is not because I'm a greedy bastard (no, the old shop which ...
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Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
So for some weird reason my application was not closable from the Mac OS X dock - it quit properly when you selected "Quit" from the application menu or hit the Cmd-Q shortcut - but the dock menu's quit action was completely ignored.
While debugging the issue I hooked into QApplication::notify(QObject ...
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