{"id":32,"date":"2007-09-28T23:51:38","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T21:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/step-by-step\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T23:55:22","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T21:55:22","slug":"step-by-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/step-by-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Step by step"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last few months I’ve worked on a new monotone<\/a> interface for guitone<\/a> from time to time. This new interface supersedes the old one in a couple of aspects; the most important one is that it runs the monotone processes in separate QThreads instead of the main GUI thread. I hope this will make many unexplainable locking problems on Mac OS X and Win32 vanish, which especially pop up when starting the application up or – weird enough – when the application is run as non-root user (Win32).<\/p>\n

Rewriting something so important almost from the scratch is very tedious. Since it basically affects the whole application, the head of the net.venge.monotone.guitone branch<\/a> has been and probably will be broken for a while. This is actually the first time I appreciated the fact that you can compile single source files step by step with make, just by triggering `make target_dir\/filename.o`, so I’m kind of proud to say that I already have the actual thread class, a task item and a thread manager working (i.e. they compile ;)) – and I just finished the new utility class which supports synchronous queries to the thread (with the help of QEventLoop<\/a>), which otherwise has a pure async i\/o.<\/p>\n

Sure, there is still a lot of work left and this work could be done faster if I wouldn’t be the only one right now hacking on this project (*wink*, *wink*, want to join?) – but at least I have the feeling that I’m getting somewhere now. And maybe I get even more impressions how to do things _better_ if I come back from the Trolltech Developer Days 2007<\/a> in Munich (16th and 17th October), whose attendance is sponsored by my company<\/a> and Trolltech themselves.<\/p>\n

Yes, thats right, they invited me to go there for free; a normal entry would have cost me nearly 600 Euro! And all this just because I develop this nice little Open Source application named guitone<\/a> – isn’t that great?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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