Soylent - Progress Report - Week 2

[Sven Pfaller <sven pfaller googlemail com>]

Hi all!

Sorry for being a bit late, but I felt really sick yesterday. But today it's 
better, so here comes my weekly report:

(also on: http://www.kalterregen.de)

Last week I put all my effort in the libsoylent API. I started thinking about 
the API design weeks ago, but now I gathered all my notes and assembled them 
into one big document, made some diagrams and worked out the API in more detail. 
The person and the addressbook objects are mostly done, while groups still need 
a bit of work. All in all it seems like a good base to get started. Currently me 
and my mentor are discussing the whole draft, and I will publish the API as soon 
as we are done.

After I had a feeling that the API looked solid enough, I started to get my 
hands on the "base-code" of libsoylent, i.e. adding the main classes and GObject 
stuff and making everything compile and work with stubs. I also added a simple 
"test-suite" that can easily be extended to test certain functionality of 
libsoylent.

libsoylent is in the Soylent SVN trunk. If you're interested, you can check it 
out at:

    http://svn.gnome.org/svn/soylent/trunk/

and build it with:

    ./configure --enable-libsoylent=yes && make

This week we also received a patch from Gilles Dartiguelongue that fixed some 
issues with the autotools configuration of Soylent / libsoylent. That was the 
first patch for me to apply (yeah ^^).

In the end something off-topic. After weeks and months of searching for a new 
flat (it's not easy in Erlangen, I can tell...) for me, my girlfriend and a good 
friend of mine, we finally found a new home. Today we signed the lease contract. 
So, in three weeks I will post from a new flat. Nice! :)