Hey everyone,
the third screencast for KDevelop is in: http://blip.tv/file/4500937
It shows the advanced snippets support in KDevelop, see also: Snippets in KDevelop & Kate.
In an unrelated note: I’ll do a talk at the Computer Science faculty of the FU Berlin tomorrow, see: http://talks.spline.de/
13.12.2010, 18 Uhr, Hörsaal der Informatik
“Wie und warum man sich als Open Source Entwickler/in engagieren sollte”
Viele Studenten könnten gute Programmierer sein, aber lassen Ihr Talent ungenutzt oder stecken es in private (kleinst) Projekte und One-Man-Vaporware. Würden sie sich hingegen in bestehenden Open Source Projekten engagieren, würde ihr Lieblingsprojekt nicht nur ein Stück besser werden, sondern sie selbst gewännen dabei eine Menge. Was ein paar dieser Vorteile sind, und wie man überhaupt damit anfängt sich in einem großen Projekt zu beteiligen, möchte ich am Beispiel von KDE zeigen und hoffe, dass dadurch ein paar mehr von euch aktiv in einem FOSS Projekt mitarbeiten werden.
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Hey all,
just a quick note: The second google code-in task for KDevelop got completed, this time by Furkan Üzümcü. He shows off some features in KDevelop 4 that together make up the advanced C++ support you can find in it. Take a look at it:
http://blip.tv/file/4479016
Thanks to Furkan and Google for doing this.
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Woha, back when Lydia announced Google Code In and asked me whether I’d like to mentor some KDevelop projects, I wasn’t so sure this was a good thing. But then I saw that documentation could be requested from the students, and well… KDevelop 4 has no real documentation (except this) - why shouldn’t I try it?
So I put a few “screencast workflow XYZ” tasks into Google’s Melange Web Interface (which btw. sucks so much it’s incredible) and forgot about it. I didn’t really think there would be school students being interested in KDevelop, esp. not in writing documentation or doing a screencast. But thankfully I was proven wrong, and in all levels. Please behold, the first documentation screencast for KDevelop, showing you how to get started with a project, setting up a launch configuration, and doing some basic debugging:
http://blip.tv/file/4437001
I’m amazed by the quality of that video, very well done Geoffry and thanks already to Google for the Code In. Lets hope more students will provide me with such good work :) And I hope this helps some users to get started with KDevelop 4.
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Hey all,
another blog post today, I’m on fire :) This one is shorter though: I want to notify you all that Quanta compiles against KDevelop master again (i.e. what will become 4.2 and uses the MovingInterface from Kate).
If you are using KDevelop 4.1 and want to use one of the Quanta plugins, like XML or CSS language support or XDebug or Crossfire integration, checkout the 4.1 branch.
I hope to work more on Quanta again over the next days, hope I can finally get it into a usable state…
Bye!
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Hey all,
I didn’t blog in a long while so I thought I’d dump some notable things I did over the last weeks. It’s probably neither complete nor thorough - you should try it all out to see it for yourself :)
Kate
Lets start small with my Kate contributions. I really concentrate on KDevelop nowadays since Kate works quite well for me and I don’t have many itches to scratch anymore :) So, what did I do these last weeks? Mostly cleanup and performance work, especially regarding MovingRanges which of course is mostly needed for a good experience in the upcoming KDevelop 4.2. With the help of Dominik Haumann I also went through our indentation unit tests and made sure we expect all currently failing test cases, as well as fixing those I could. Now we (finally!) have a passing test suite and get noticed about introduced regressions. Awesome!
KDevelop
Of course I still concentrate my contributions on KDevelop and related plugins. What I find quite interesting is that I’m now for over two months in a “polish-and-bugfixing” -mode, without adding much new features. I think that shows that I’m quite satisfied with the existing features, just not with the way they are integrated. E.g. the Kate performance improvements above were done in order to make “reformat source” not hang the IDE for a couple of seconds anymore, in KDevelop 4.2 it will only be like one second for really big source files. I’ve also tackled our black sheep, the “launch configuration” dialog. I didn’t rewrite it, but I did some polishing and have some more ideas to hopefully get it into a useable state. Oh, I just remember: I also spent some time on the “Snippets” plugin, restructured the editor dialogs a bit and made them use Katepart as well, for syntax highlighting and proper editor features :)
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Hello everyone!
I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of KDevelop 4.1 RC 1. This is a testing release, and any feedback is greatly appreciated. Please send us your feedback either via one of our mailing lists, #kdevelop on freenode or put general bugs and wish request as always to http://bugs.kde.org. We are quite confident that this release is ready for every-day use, and if nothing unplanned happens, we are going to release KDevelop 4.1 in about two weeks.
Download
KDevplatform 1.0.90
<http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=unstable/kdevelop/4.0.90/src/kdevplatform-1.0.90.tar.bz2>
MD5 Sum: `c652788d44ec4b4b09bc2d26f2ae2068`
SHA1 Sum: `e6a87146f69c4149ee669de21dc171020285f17a` KDevelop 4.0.90
<http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=unstable/kdevelop/4.0.90/src/kdevelop-4.0.90.tar.bz2>
MD5 Sum: `2d0028a60a0beecb0e3f6e442f2e7be3`
SHA1 Sum: `72bb75a5dcf3e23165cfc5e00d92229012752fd3` KDevelop PHP 1.0.90
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Hello dear lazyweb,
I have a problem that I could not solve nor find help by my usual paths. I’m speaking about a deadlock on shutdown I get sometimes with what will become KDevelop 4.1. You can find a backtrace in this bug report:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239032
The thing is this: Apparently some global QMutex is getting destroyed by the exit handler but the call to __pthread_cond_destroy does not return.
I have no clue on how to fix this. Is there at least a way to find out which mutex this is? Someone told me to have a look in /proc/PID/maps but there I only found out that - what a suprise - ~QMutex is defined in libQtCore.so… Or should I have looked for the this=0xfffffe00 address? Speaking of which - isn’t that address messed up?
Does anyone have a better idea?
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Good news everyone!
I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of KDevelop 4.1 Beta 3. This is a testing release, any feedback is greatly appreciated. But keep in mind that it might exhibit unexpected behavior and eat your children. Please send us your feedback either via one of our mailing lists, #kdevelop on freenode or put general bugs and wish request as always to http://bugs.kde.org.
Download
KDevplatform 1.0.82
<http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=unstable/kdevelop/4.0.82/src/kdevplatform-1.0.82.tar.bz2>
MD5 Sum: `2adf7d05558d9c0dd1e4e98ccf67b423`
SHA1 Sum: `940a326bdd300fc435e8699d392fb85c6945dc91` KDevelop 4.0.82
<http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=unstable/kdevelop/4.0.82/src/kdevelop-4.0.82.tar.bz2>
MD5 Sum: `192e8ba827bfebd090740b138418f4c6`
SHA1 Sum: `f9ea5ea9b9f07c338426a1f5d42584090bbb590b` KDevelop PHP 1.0.82
<http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=unstable/kdevelop/4.0.82/src/kdevelop-php-1.0.82.tar.bz2>
MD5 Sum: `e25c351d62e70931f0466c831fa16c6f`
SHA1 Sum: `f9ea5ea9b9f07c338426a1f5d42584090bbb590b` KDevelop PHP Docs 1.0.82
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Good news everyone, this time in a double feature!
I’m happy to announce the availability of two new additions to the KDevelop release family:
KDevelop 4.0.2 stable release
Lets begin with the boring part: We have released KDevelop 4.0.2, together with KDevplatform and the PHP plugins. You can find the sources here:
http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=stable/kdevelop/4.0.2/src/
This is a bugfix only release and everyone is urged to upgrade as soon as possible. Users should wait for their distributions to provide packages for them. The tarballs contain changelogs if you are interested what happened since 4.0.1. Or read them online:
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Hey everyone.
I was on a spontaneous trip last week and missed the Beta 2 release. Apol took over but my instructions where not clear enough and the packages where totally screwed up (the tags pointed to code in master, no the 4.1 branch).
I’m in the process of fixing things up and will create tarballs for Beta 3 and announce it to packagers later today.
Lets hope the actual release for users out there can happen later this week.
Sorry again, bye.
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