Entries from September 2007 ↓

Sorry folks, but the mailing lists and trackers aren’t ready yet. I haven’t actually subscribed myself to any of the mailing lists yet, as my inbox is currently swamped (I’m working on cleaning it out). The trackers don’t have groups, categories, and permissions set yet. I’ll work on getting those up and running first, since they take a higher priority.

That’s right! The very first beta of last.tag has just been released! What are you waiting for, go download it!

Ahem. Excuse my Mac bashing, but I need some Mac gurus to help me write the installer for Mac, and to make sure the program itself runs fine under OS X. Any takers?

Yay!

The installer works fine under Windows XP (though it is a little short-sighted; if the install files/directories already exist, it chokes and dies). It doesn’t add the executable to your PATH yet, but I may (probably) decide to make it before release day comes around. As for the program itself… I’ve still got a few bugs to work out. I’ll keep you posted.

setuptools is having some trouble installing PyXML and PyCrypto under Windows. So you will have to do it manually, as I did. And since Windows doesn’t come with any compiler installed by default (**cough**inferiorproprietygarbage**coughcough**), you’ll have to install one yourself (I myself used MinGW32). MinGW32 works well and is free and open-source. So you’ll be fine. Just download the automated installer for it, then download the source tarballs for PyXML and PyCrypto, and run python setup.py build -c mingw32 && python setup.py install –skip-build for each of them, then proceed with last.tag’s normal installation procedures (which would be something like python setup.py install, if I remember correctly). If you all are wondering why the heck I’m telling you this when a release isn’t even available yet, you should know you can always just install from the latest svn snapshot at https://lasttag.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lasttag/. Just don’t expect it to work.

My laptop blew up. So I’ve been developing from my mom’s old Pentium 2. It’s very painful… I’ve never before in my life had to wait 9 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes, and 50 seconds for gcc to finish compiling. It was hell. So, my rich friends, this is where you come in.
If you could find it in your heart to donate, it would really help with the development process. And I would greatly appreciate it.

All the code is finished, and all the docs and stuff are done. Testing for Linux is finished, and right now I’m just beginning to test it on Windows XP. Once I’m sure it works, I should, in theory, be able to release it right away. I’ve got the Subversion repository set up and everything, so it would just be a matter of uploading to file-release, and adding a link to the download page. I’m planning to release it tomorrow (Monday), so we’ll see how it goes.