September 2004 Archives

The latest Mono and friends seems to have fixed all the issues I ran into upgrading past 1.0. I also was able to release monodevelop for the first time (yay!).

• cairo: updated with a small bugfix patch from the ximian linux packages
• gecko-sharp: remove references to ICU stuff when building
• gtk-sharp: split into gtk-sharp/gtk-sharp-monodoc to get around a bootstrapping issue, also updated to 1.0.2
• gtksourceview-sharp: remove references to ICU stuff when building
• mono: updated to 1.0.2
• monodoc: updated to 1.0.2
• mono-xsp: re-released, now that it (mostly) runs again
• monodevelop: newly introduced; based on a 0.5.1 svn snapshot
• libgdiplus: updated to 1.0.2
• libicuXX: updated to a package that provides the headers that go along with Apple's libicucore.A.dylib, removed old libicuXX's since the only thing using it in fink is mono at the moment anyways

The only issues I've seen so far are minor. Mozilla currently does not build with X.org's freetype (it's too new). You'll probably have to apt-get install mozilla-dev if you want gecko-sharp (and, by extension, monodevelop). Also, XSP runs, but some of the examples crash it. I've gotta get some decent bug reports to pass back to the XSP folks. Other than that I think things are looking pretty solid.

While I haven't updated my blog much recently, you may have noticed I've been pretty busy...

I got XFree86 moved to stable, and got a number of X.org releases out (the most recent includes the 6.8.1 security fixes, and should interoperate nicely dependency-wise with other X11's as far as upgrading, as well as fix some headers that broke gnome).

I've been making headway on KDE. Everything's pretty solid except kdevelop and koffice (1.3.3 just got sent to packagers, I'm working on that). I'll let you know when there's more of interest.

I also packaged a few interesting things... gnomoradio, an independent music rating/listening system, as well as applex11tools, a package to let you install XFree86 or X.org and still use Apple's X11.app and quartz-wm (in fact, you can run XDarwin.app and X11.app simultaneously if you tell XDarwin to start on display 1. Nutty!)

Another big thing I just released was a ton of java updates, including new Fink support for doing some tricks to set JAVA_HOME when building packages. tomcat4 is finally in 10.2-gcc3.3 and 10.3. Yay!

I guess that's it for now. Until next time, signing off. =)