Re: ANNOUNCE: Conduit 0.3.5

[Karl Lattimer <karl qdh org uk>]

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 15:35 +1300, John Stowers wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2008 4:32 AM, Karl Lattimer <karl qdh org uk> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> 
> How could I forget! Core wise, I think Conduit is pretty ready ATM. As
> I mentioned in the last email, its pretty easy to start hacking on.
> Just copy the whole gtkui dir to something else (say blingui), and
> launch conduit with --ui=bling

OK this is what I was hoping for, as wine-doors is about to have a major
refactoring internally I'm hoping to learn something (probably a lot)
from the conduit project's structuring of a pygtk app. 

I also have cow powers so I'll SVN add it in its new dir so you can see
what I'm up to.

> 
> > 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.
> 
> Totally agree. Especially considering that converters are starting to
> play a bigger part in Conduit. Are you going to any conferences coming
> up? Im not at Fosdem, but other team conduit people are.

Fosdem depends on a lot of things for me unfortunately, if I can make
it, I'll make it :)

> 
> Do you need any direction with the gui stuff? When you start hacking,
> talk to thomasvm first, as he is working on the hildon/maemo UI. He
> may be interested in putting some common ui stuff out into a
> conduit/ui directory.

Sure I'll bare this in mind.

K,


> 
> John
> 
> >
> > 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.
> > >
> > > http://www.conduit-project.org
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