Upgrading WordPress

I updated WordPress to 1.5 on edev. There is a wonderful theme capability. I added some themes from the Alex King. You can browse the themes with the Theme Browser.

DevJam Oldenburg report

I finaly sent the report ;-) of course I forgot some details but you can found them on a mail from Mark

Cacao to launch Eclipse 3.1 on PowerPC

When I met (for the second time in person) twisty (Christian Thalinger, one of the CacaoVM developers), he told me Cacao was one of the fastest JVM: «It sometimes kick Sun's JVM ass... note the *sometimes*» :-D Alas, it was not possible to launch Eclipse with it, and on PowerPC, the only usable solution was the excellent JamVM. Kaffe in interpreter mode takes ages to just launch Eclipse. I received a mail somedays ago, subject was like a spam: «I did it just for you» ;-) I wanna deleted it but I remembered the name ;-) I updated GNU/Classpath CVS and CacaoVM CVS, compiled both and yes! It works! And Yes! It's really fast! (note the really!) :-D

Many thanks Christian (and other devs from CacaoVM... and all the GNU/Classpath Devs of course!)

Site Toby-Vins.be en ligne

Comme nous l'avions promis, le site web Toby-Vins est en ligne. L'achat en ligne devrait être effectif à partir du 21 novembre.

More stubs in Classpath?

In my last post, I was talking about the stubs in GNU/Classpath. These classes with empty methods. It's a bad thing because you think the class and method are there but they do nothing! Last time I ran egrep on the GNU/Classpath sources I found 2617 lines with '(TODO|FIXME|(not|Not) (I|i)mplemented|XXX|UnsupportedOperationException)'. Today, I found 2901 lines.

The first reaction could be: more stubs?! But also, maybe there are more code and so, more difficulties.

update: 2005/11/16 16:03 theBohemian told me that FIXME and TODO do not always lead to stub methods

update: 2005/11/16 16:59 mjw told me that rabbit78 added TODO's on Swing empty methods (and that's a really good thing!

#3 We Won't Hide Problems

The third point of the Debian Social Contract says that we won't hide the problems. In GNU Classpath we are now 94% of the JDK 1.4 compatibility (see the Japitool daily report), but as discussed at the Oldenburg DevJam, we must admit that there are methods that just do nothing. Being API compatible is great, but in the past, there were stubs methods (no one deos it for more than a year or two). From CVS tonight:

(sid)arnaud@oz:~/gnu/classpath$ find -name '*.java' |

xargs egrep '(TODO|FIXME|(not|Not) (I|i)mplemented|XXX|UnsupportedOperationException)' | wc -l

2617

We need to tag all these FIXEME and TODO comments and process it with gjdoc and an XSLT stylesheet so we can easily see were we have to put our efforts.

Oldenburg `DevJam' meeting

Great time in Oldenburg meeting all these clever guys from the DevJam. We talked about a lot of things, try to set common practises (some can be done, a lot would take too mutch time), talked about the current toolchain status, uploaded a lot of packages and closing a lot of bugs. I also translated the bio page of Kurt Gramlich from SkoleLinux in French and he teached me screen... I always work with it now! Debian-Java guys present at the Oldenburg DevJam are working on a common report I'll send as soon as possible.

Gmail reports debian bts and cvs notifications as spam!

It's been one month now that I redirect some of my mail accounts to gmail to use there spam filter... but since July 21 or so, all the Kaffe CVS notifications, pkg-java-commits, BTS notifications, some bug reports have been reported as spam! I think I read some mails, I don't know if it's because I was personally Cc'ed but I'm sure I did not receive a lot of them!

I'm very sorry if I did not respond to some of you, I'll go more often on Gmail to 'unspam' :-D

ant is going to main!..

many many many thanks to Wolfgang Baer who did what we all want: ant is goind to main!

Married for 5 years!

Yes, it's today. I was thinking about a party for month and of course I forget to plan everything!.. But well, we are still super happy with the marriage ;-)... and the house takes a lot of time!