Advogato blog for mpesenti

21 May 2004 - May 21, 2004

I started phase 2 of my mozilla SDK fight. In other words I'm starting to identify and solve problems with the embedding API. Mozilla hackers seem to be interested in feedback and that's a good start. I like how mozilla 2.0 plans are shaping up, I think mozilla has a chance to become a very good development platform on the not too long time. One positive aspect of working in two communities is that when you are sad about how things are going in one, you can feel better about progresses on...
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20 May 2004 - May 20, 2004

Seth is expressing very well my (and I'm sure of a large part of the community) concerns about Mono. Sadly this looks already like yet another (de facto) fork of the free desktop strategy. I hope there is a way to recover but I wish we had this argument a while ago.
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19 May 2004 - May 19, 2004

I landed a pair of mozilla embedding patches, and I'm waiting for another one to be checked in. The GRE work is almost complete. I guess I'll have to wait embed stringprivate string incompatibilities to be fixed though, even if I'm not experiencing problems on linux. Integrating mozilla and GNOME printing is not as easy as I'd have hoped, mainly because there is not yet something like a GNOME print system (or at least something stable, that we are planning to keep supporting in the future)...
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9 May 2004 - May 9, 2004

My thesis discussion is near now (18 May) and I'm pretty busy organizing latest details, did not get much done in the last few days : The GRE work is progressing slowly but pieces are getting in place as I would like. In particular Darin will work on a fix to allow mixing nsEmbedString and private string in the same DSO. That means my GRE patch will not break mozilla static build (the hard part of mozilla development is to deal with multiple platforms and builds) and that we will be able to...
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