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[Orbit-python-list] Any activity?

[Roland M. <99....@ai...>]

  Hi people,

  I haven't seen much activity on this list, on IRC, or in the CVS
repository for rather a long time.  I'd like to send a SIGCONT to the
group (oncluding myself of course), so that the development process
goes on.

  In particular, there are several bugs registered on the Bugzilla
pages, one of which concerns me particularly (I just submitted it).
The 0.3.1 release is already outdated (since at lease one bug has been
fixed in CVS since it was released), and there's still no 0.3.2
version in the foreseeable future.  Since my work is again going to
involve a lot of development with ORBit-Python, I'll need it to be
fairly stable in a matter of weeks.

  Is anyone else but me interested in fixing these bugs?  Come on
guys, let's wake up and make ORBit-Python what it deserves to be!

Roland.
-- 
Roland Mas

Death *was* hereditary.  You got it from your ancestors.
  -- in Hogfather (Terry Pratchett)

Re: [Orbit-python-list] Any activity?

[Roland M. <99....@ai...>]

Roland Mas (2002-01-23 14:55:03 +0100) :

>   In particular, there are several bugs registered on the Bugzilla
> pages, one of which concerns me particularly (I just submitted it).

  That one has been fixed by me (with help from Johan).  I'll upload
new Debian packages shortly.

Roland.
--=20
Roland Mas

=CAtes vous s=FBr ? (O/N)
  -- Derniers mots d'un ordinateur

Re: [Orbit-python-list] Any activity?

[Roland M. <99....@ai...>]

Roland Mas (2002-01-25 11:21:57 +0100) :

> Roland Mas (2002-01-23 14:55:03 +0100) :
>
>>   In particular, there are several bugs registered on the Bugzilla
>> pages, one of which concerns me particularly (I just submitted it).
>
>   That one has been fixed by me (with help from Johan).  I'll upload
> new Debian packages shortly.

Well, it's done.  Know that this fix shows a memory leak, though.  It
doesn't exactly /introduce/ this leak, since the conditions leading to
it previously led to a segfault, but there it is.  I had a fix for
that leak, but it was a fix for ORBit, and I was told by one ORBit
guru that it was wrong.  Apparently it's okay for applications
(including ORBit-Python) to fiddle with the deep innards of ORBit
proper (including ...->_private members of structs).  I'm looking for
another, ORBit-Python-only, fix.

Roland.
--=20
Roland Mas

C'est dans la boue la plus naus=E9euse que plongent les racines de
l'=E9tincelante fleur de lotus. -- in Sri Raoul le petit yogi (Gaudelette=
)

Re: [Orbit-python-list] Any activity?

[Christian R. R. <ki...@as...>]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Roland Mas wrote:

> Roland Mas (2002-01-25 11:21:57 +0100) :
>
> Well, it's done.  Know that this fix shows a memory leak, though.  It
> doesn't exactly /introduce/ this leak, since the conditions leading to
> it previously led to a segfault, but there it is.  I had a fix for
> that leak, but it was a fix for ORBit, and I was told by one ORBit
> guru that it was wrong.  Apparently it's okay for applications
> (including ORBit-Python) to fiddle with the deep innards of ORBit
> proper (including ...->_private members of structs).  I'm looking for
> another, ORBit-Python-only, fix.

Have you tested with ORBit-0.5.12? At least from what I remember, we had a
lot of trouble because somebody was murdering ->_private members of
deactivated servants.

I can't see a way to fix that without having the ORBit folks reversing
that patch.

Take care,
--
Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil.
http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 272 3330 | NMFL

Re: [Orbit-python-list] Any activity?

[Christian R. R. <ki...@as...>]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Roland Mas wrote:

>   Is anyone else but me interested in fixing these bugs?  Come on
> guys, let's wake up and make ORBit-Python what it deserves to be!

I'm awake, just very very busy. Promise to shape up in the following
weeks.

Take care,
--
Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil.
http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 272 3330 | NMFL