Re: ANNOUNCE: Conduit 0.3.5

[Karl Lattimer <karl qdh org uk>]

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 04:06 +1300, John Stowers wrote:
> Hey Everyone!

> I am proud to announce the sixth release in the Conduit development
> series: Conduit 0.3.5

Great news and congratulations on this :)

I was wondering if you can make sure that conduit is ready for my UI
hackage by 0.4, remember the most recent mockup I sent? 

I'd love this to get in, as from screens like this
http://www.conduit-project.org/attachment/wiki/Screenshots/Screenshot-conduit0.3.4.png?format=raw
it looks like it would be a massive improvement over the existing UI.

Regards,
K,


> 
>  * Download: http://download.gnome.org/sources/conduit/0.3/
>  * Screenshots/Screencast: http://www.conduit-project.org/wiki/Screenshots
> 
> == Bugs Fixed ==
>  * Conduits embedded web browser should no longer crash.
>  * Canceling synchronization should now work reliably and no longer
> block the GUI.
>  * Correctly restore two-way sync setting. Patch from Yann Rouillard.
>  * Escape patch in folder scanner. Fixes webdav sync. Patch from Yann Rouillard.
>  * Improve handling of TempFiles
>  * Remove dependence on xml.dom.ext (PyXML)
>  * Remove dependence on python-avahi
>  * The conflict expander (and window) should now move out of the way gracefully
>  * Abstracted much of the uri handling to ease transition to gio/gvfs
>  * Many fixes to work with python 2.4
>  * Update to new backpack API
> 
> == New Features ==
>  * Move to GNOME SVN and Bugzilla
>  * In memory mapping DB has been replace with sqlite based one. Should
> reduce memory usage during large sync's.
>  * Restructure code layout to allow Conduit to be used as a library by
> other python programs.
>  * Removed Gtk dependancy in core. Conduit command line can now be run
> without Gtk installed.
>  * Added 'always up to date' infrastructure for automatic syncing.
>  * Improved n800 support for syncing audio, video and photos to the device.
>  * New AudioVideoConverter for transcoding media types (uses FFMPEG
> and/or mencoder)
>  * Include Banshee support in configure.ac - from lool
>  * Support data hashes in addition to mtimes as a means for detecting changes
>  * Remove twisted dependency for network sync. Uses the built in
> python xmlrpc module
>  * Use python logging module for better logging granularity
>  * Make HAL easier to extend in dataprovider factories
>  * Files that did not load correctly are shown in the preferences
> window to help debugging
>  * Experimental maemo/hildon UI (Thomas)
>  * Added iPod photos support
>  * Write support in f-spot using its new dbus interface (Thomas)
>  * Support tags in all datatypes (useful for images)
>  * Incredible improvements in test coverage. 75% lines of core code
> tested (including close to 100% of the core sync engine)
>  * RSS Feed source now supports video enclosures
>  * Many many bug fixes as a result of test focus
> 
> == Known Issues ==
>  * Not yet working with Tomboy SVN head
>  * The new Shutterfly image dataprovider (Contributed by Jeremy
> Slater) is broken
>  * For two way F-spot sync remember to run F-spot from SVN and enable
> the F-spot preferences option "Allow other programs to manipulate
> F-spot"
>  * Gmail support is not yet robust
> 
> == Evolution Python ==
>  * This has now been moved to
> [http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-python-desktop/trunk/evolution/
> GNOME SVN] in the gnome-python-desktop module
> 
> == Notes to Packagers ==
>  * Web browser problems and crashes
>    * If users experience crashes, this is most likely due to a combination of;
>      * Using conduit's built in web browser
>      * /usr/bin/conduit wrapper not picking up firefox (and doing all
> its LD_LIBRARY_PATH hacks correctly
>    * To resolve these issues ;
>      * Look at the conduit wrapper and ensure the run-mozilla.sh gets called OR
>      * Make the default web browser the system one (patch Settings.py)
> AND patch the Facebook dataprovider so it uses the system browser
>  * F-spot
>    * If you are shipping F-spot from SVN (i.e. a version of F-spot
> that includes the DBus interface) you should only ship
> FSpotDbusModule.py and remove FSpotModule.py as it is not going to be
> supported once a stable F-spot is released
>    * If you do wish to make the Conduit + F-spot experience better
> then consider changing the default value of F-spot's "Allow other
> programs to manipulate F-spot" preference to True
>  * Dependencies
>    * We require pygoocanvas > 0.9.0
>    * We depend on python-vobject (and it brings in python date-util)
>    * We ship a modified FlickrAPI (do not remove it)
>    * We use libgmail from SVN
>    * iPod photos requires libgpod > 0.6.0
>    * If you use the gtkmozembed web browser then we require the python
> bindings to it
>    * The AV converters require ffmpeg and mencoder
>    * Since evolution-python is now in gnome-python-desktop we require
> a recent unstable release of that module
>  * Conduit is configured to autorun at system startup. You can disable
> this if you like as there is currently no way to do so within conduit
>  * There is no way to configure the gconf sync at this time. You can
> select a default set of gconf keys to sync by patching the
> dataprovider directly.
>  * 0.4.0 will be a stable release. It is scheduled to be released with
> (and support) GNOME 2.22
> 
> == Warning ==
> This is a development release. Please do not use on data which you do
> not have otherwise backed up. If you are uncertain about Conduit then
> please select the "Ask me" option from conduit preferences with regard
> to two way synchronization - this prevents Conduit from deleting or
> overwriting files unless you explicitly tell it to.
> 
> What is Conduit
> ==========
> Conduit is a synchronization application for GNOME. It allows you to
> synchronize your data between online web services (Gmail,
> backpackit.com, Flickr, PicasaWeb, Box.net, etc) and your computer.
> 
> What Can Conduit Do
> =============
> For a list of all the services that conduit supports see
>  * http://www.conduit-project.org/wiki/SyncStatus
> 
> In the one way sync/export case Conduit is smart in the sense that if
> a piece of data has not been modified then it will not be
> synchronized/exported again, it will replace the existing data. In
> addition if data is subsequently removed from a source then its
> corresponding data will also be deleted.
> 
> Conduit has a full featured DBus interface to allow other application
> authors to use Conduit to perform the synchronization and export tasks
> of their applications.
> 
> Conclusion
> =======
> More and more people use online services to organise their life, I
> hope Conduit can be the bridge between peoples computers and the web.
> 
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