Fix me baby one more time :-)

08Jul06

There’s a lot going on in MacLibre coding world since my last post :-)

I will start with bug fix mentioned in my last post:

• AbiWord is now up to date (2.4.4 version) and DmgContainer has been extended to handle dmg.gz archives like AbiWord’s one,
• after talking with my mentor Pierre-Jean Coundert we decided that we will remove Firefox 1.0 and Thunderbird 1.0 from MacLibre, leaving only the newest 1.5 version,
• now if you have no internet connection the application will show the YES/NO window asking if you want to try reconnect,
• i did some research about Cocoa/PyObjC window for asking user’s password and I decided that I will stick to wxPython, because I don’t want to mix it with GUI from Interface Builder and another library so that the .app would be bigger (it’s big enough with wxPython 2.6),
• now even when you select DECLINE in Software License Agreement window of the application installation process continue without installing declined one,
• added Status tag in xml file for some applications that are unstable/testing/beta (ex. Colloquy 2.1)

Other svn commits news:

• added getResourcesPath() function to tools.py, it’s return path depends whether you’re using .app or just sources files from svn,
• some words changes ( Applications/Action instead of MacLibre/TODO for package chooser tree columns names and Installation progress instead of Progression in wizard page title,
• extended darwinList in MacLibre.py with new Mac OS X version that haven’t been added yet,
• replaced vulnerable for symlink attacks os.tempnam() function with mkstemp() from tempfile module,
• added .app build script (setup.py), now to build .app all you have to do is type: python setup.py py2app and you will get MacLibre.app in dist directory,
• bug fix in Downloader.py, download progress label was going out of file size (ex. “8.79 MB on 8.69 MB”), changed “on” to “of”

Stay tuned for more updates informations like GUI improvements and my MacLibre dmg disk image research and work…

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