27 Articles tagged “release”

el-get reaches 1.0

8 mins read Projects, switch-window
It’s been a week since the last commits in the el-get repository, and those were all about fixing and adding recipes, and about notifications. Nothing like core plumbing you see. Also, 0.9 was released on 2010-08-24 and felt pretty complete already, then received lots of improvements. It’s high time to cross the line and call it 1.0! Now existing users will certainly just be moderatly happy to see the tool reach that version number, depending whether they think more about the bugs they want to see fixed (ftp is supported, only called http) and the new features they want to see in ( info documentation) or more about what el-get does for them already today…

switch-window reaches 0.8

1 mins read Projects, switch-window
I wanted to play with the idea of using the whole keyboard for my switch-window utility, but wondered how to get those keys in the right order and all. Finally found quail-keyboard-layout which seems to exists for such uses, as you can see: (loop with layout = (split-string quail-keyboard-layout "") for row from 1 to 4 collect (loop for col from 1 to 12 ("q" "w" "e" "r" "t" "y" "u" "i" "o" "p" "[" "]") ("a" "s" "d" "f" "g" "h" "j" "k" "l" ";" "'" "\\") ("z" "x" "c" "v" "b" "n" "m" "," ".

Synchronous Replication

4 mins read PostgreSQL, Release
Although the new asynchronous replication facility that ships with 9.0 ain’t released to the wide public yet, our hackers hero are already working on the synchronous version of it. A part of the facility is rather easy to design, we want something comparable to DRBD flexibility, but specific to our database world. So synchronous would either mean recv, fsync or apply, depending on what you need the standby to have already done when the master acknowledges the COMMIT.

el-get and dim-switch-window status update

2 mins read Projects, switch-window
Thanks to you readers of Planet Emacsen taking the time to try those pieces of emacs lisp found in my blog, and also the time to comment on them, some bugs have been fixed, and new releases appeared. el-get had some typo kind of bug in its support for apt-get and fink packages, and I managed to break the elpa and http support when going all asynchronous by forgetting to update the call convention I’m using.

debian packaging PostgreSQL extensions

4 mins read Projects, prefix
In trying to help an extension debian packaging effort, I’ve once again proposed to handle it. That’s because I now begin to know how to do it, as you can see in my package overview page at debian QA facility. There’s a reason why I proposed myself here, it’s that yet another tool of mine is now to be found in debian, and should greatly help extension packaging there. You can already check for the postgresql-server-dev-all package page if you’re that impatient!

Dimitri Fontaine

PostgreSQL Major Contributor

Open Source Software Engineer

France