http://blog.viridian-project.de Leslie P. Polzer on code, music, literature, design and free software business. Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:31:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As a precursor to 0.9 which will contain much desired features like AUR system upgrades we decided to release 0.8.3 which contains a bunch of bug fixes: Version comparison no longer fails on provider packages (#8) Reinstallation works properly again (#7) Trying to install or get pkgbuilds for non-existent packages is handled correctly ... http://blog.viridian-project.de/2010/01/24/paktahn-0-8-3-released/ Merry christmas everyone! It must be christmas of course since Paktahn 0.8.2 is now out as promised! ;D As it often happens in software development it's a little later than originally expected, but there's a lot of good stuff that has made it into this release. Highlights fixed arch=(any) case (reported by magus) proper error ... http://blog.viridian-project.de/2010/01/10/paktahn-0-8-2-released/ Here's a one-liner that will install Paktahn. It will add the Paktahn binary repository to /etc/pacman.conf and run Pacman to install Paktahn. wget -qO- http://viridian-project.de/\~sky/paktahn/quickinstall.sh | sudo sh You just need to paste this line into a terminal. Review the script here, it's very simple: http://viridian-project.de/~sky/paktahn/quickinstall.sh http://blog.viridian-project.de/2009/10/04/paktahn-quickinstaller/ The next version of Paktahn is ready. Just sync-install your Paktahn package; rc testers will have to remove and reinstall explicitly. New users should refer to the original blog post for instructions. Changes Bug fixes * fixed x86_64 package building/installation * fixed case when $EDITOR also had args in it (e.g. "emacsclient ... http://blog.viridian-project.de/2009/10/04/paktahn-0-8-1-released/ Hi folks, Paktahn 0.8.1 is ready but has only been tested by me, so here's a prerelease for you to run and help find bugs: http://viridian-project.de/~sky/paktahn/rc/paktahn-0.8.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz Changes: * package removal support * support for provider packages * support reinstallation of packages * throw an error when the user attempts ... http://blog.viridian-project.de/2009/09/28/paktahn-0-8-1-release-candidate/ [This post is geared towards ArchLinux users. It might confuse you if you're not part of that audience.] yaourt, the popular Pacman wrapper, doesn't seem to be maintained anymore and has quite some problems (e.g. UI nits, security issues, huge shell codebase). And people are starting to get tired of it ... http://blog.viridian-project.de/2009/09/19/announcement-paktahn-a-successor-to-yaourt/ If you're a Twitter user then chances are you've seen this message. Here's a rant based on it. The Twitter web interface allows you to take a look at older tweets in bunches of about a twenty each. And every time you want to fetch a new batch you have to ... http://blog.viridian-project.de/2009/07/29/whoops-something-went-wrong-please-try-refreshing-the-page/ The POSIX threads interface allows user applications to manage scheduling policies and priorities. Certain threads can be made to wait in favor of other threads (priority), and the order of execution for threads of equal priority can be specified (policy). Below is a humble example interface to access this API. (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op ... http://blog.viridian-project.de/2009/07/25/posix-thread-priority-and-policy-handling-in-common-lisp/ The POSIX mmap() system call provides a convenient way to access a file's content. Basically you just tell the kernel that you want a specific file accessible in memory. This shifts the responsibility for efficient and organized file access from your application to the kernel. In the meantime you simply work with ... http://blog.viridian-project.de/2009/07/24/sbcl-getting-started-with-mmap/ Weblocks is an advanced web framework written in Common Lisp. It is designed to make Agile web application development as effective and simple as possible. WHY YET ANOTHER WEB FRAMEWORK? This is not your ordinary run-of-the-mill web framework in PHP, Python or Ruby. Weblocks uses powerful Lisp features like multiple dispatch, the metaobject protocol, lexical closures, ... http://blog.viridian-project.de/2009/07/12/weblocks-083-released/