Today was my first real hacking day since I got back from Boston, catching up at hell has been really a pain in the ass. I can't say I am really enjoying working there at all, but such is life. This entry is most likely disorganized as I am trying to catch up on things I should have blogged about, and things I was avoiding blogging about.
As jluke has said, I finally got around to curing that #1 gripe some of you have had recently with recent MD snapshots requiring the debugger, and by doing so, requiring a NPTL setup. To those of you that don't know much about NPTL, I am in the club with you. I have no clue what it gives us, and all I know is that you need a 2.6 kernel (or rh9's patched 2.4 kernel) and potentially modified recent glibc to have it working. However, for those of you still in the stone-age, MD is now buildable again without debugger support on non-NPTL computers.
Yesterday I decided to give rh9 the heave, and move to FC test 2. All I have to say is 'wow', the 2.6 kernel is really really nice, and fc test 2 seems pretty amazingly stable. I have had no real issues yet. The only one I found was the new mime-type stuff in gnome 2.5/2.6 that prevented our old method of adding a C# mimetype from working, gotta hack on that soon. (Hint hint fd.o guys, we need it in there and a bunch of others, I have a list of about 10 others that are pretty much needed)
I am going to try and finish up some monodoc integration stuff to provide short descriptions on code completion tooltips tonight/tomorrow/asap and get that in, then it is back to bugfixing for a week or so. I would expect to see a 0.2 of MD (hopefully with red-carpet packages) pretty soonish, as we are now going by the release often rule. I would like to potentially put out releases every 3-4 weeks to stimulate bug reporting and feedback.
Oh, people, if you find anything broken, or anything you think might be broken, or anything you think could be broken, FILE BUGS PLEASE. We have a bugzilla component here. I would much rather see 200 bugs than 20, we want this IDE to be damn good and usable, not just kinda cool, or 'look, it has a code completion window, wow. *close*'.
Finally, some people keep emailing me asking for my opinion on this patent/platform talk going on (Why, I have no idea). I am going to stay quiet as I doubt I can say anything any better than lupus or miguel has. I have no doubt the side of the debate I am on is pretty clear ;)
PS - If anyone knows of a nice commandline xpath expression tester please let me know, and I dont need some crappy swing gui, or any of that cruft, I've seen plenty of those.
Update: Duncan gave me one, he rocks hard. Everyone should email him again, cause last him he got confused and then happy. This guy does all the thankless work and never gets near enough thanks.