Sriram Narayanan wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: > >> Hi Folks, >> >> I have been upto a bunch of activities lately. One is playing with the >> OSUNIX binaries and secondly building latest packages for BeleniX 0.8. >> >> For OSUNIX I have got a booting ISO that lands you in single-user >> prompt and I am debugging the other service startup issues. These fixes >> eventually go into pkgcore. >> >> For BeleniX 0.8 these are the things that have happened till date: >> >> * Pulled a snapshot of JDS spec files trunk and build them to get >> the current Gtk/Glib/Gnome 2.26 packages. Some of these are >> slightly modified for BeleniX. This also gets us the ZFS auto- >> snapshot and Time Slider in Nautilus. However this needs to be >> ported to KDE 4 as well. Anyone upto the task ? >> > > Would PyQT be OK to use ? I know that you have pushed pyqt into the repo :) > It should integrate with Konqueror so if you can do that with PyQT and save time why not. I suspect though that it will need to be implemented in c++ though. > >> * Firefox stable has been updated to 3.0.8 while 3.5B1 is available in >> pkg.belenix.org trunk. The 3.5B1 build contains some config tweaks >> to boost performance like HTTP 1.1 pipelining enabled. >> >> * Gcc 4.4 final release is now available in trunk. >> >> * Lots of other new and updated packages like audio/video stuff, BOOST, >> experimental Webkit etc. 64Bit versions of many libraries have been >> added (including BOOST and Webkit). All the C++ stuff including a few >> in Gnome (gtkmm, cairomm) are built using the new Gcc 4.4. >> >> > > The experimental Webkit is something that sounds really exciting. > > It's also nice to know that you've used GCC 4.4 for all the c++ stuff. > This should result in some binaries that need a lot of testing ! > > I concur! I can't express how much of a memory hog FF is and I'd like to get away from it. If you end up needing to debug webkit I'd highly recommend midori since it's so small and light. >> * Latest Nvidia driver is available in pkg.belenix.org trunk. >> >> There are more packages to be added before we can get KDE 4.2 to >> build. >> >> > > I await more news on this :) > > It looks like we'll all need a major bout of testing before we > announce 0.8 as final. Let me know once you spin up an ISO. > > This is great work Moinak.. (now only if you'd quit breaking my zones.. ;)
For gcc did you run make test? Boost is a pretty well known c++ killer so if that built correctly we're probably not doing too bad. I've been fighting with Icedtea6 all week (OpenJDK6 with patches to remove the need for closed bins) If you'd like to toss that in for 0.8 I'd be happy to help. It *just* finished bootstrapping and I have a few more things to debug to get it working correctly. ./C
