It was a fine, sunny morning in Brisbane, Australia: home of the Third Annual Haiku Down Under Virtual Conference for Haiku Users and Developers. Virtual in the respect that the event was streamed live over the Internet via the uStream service. We accept (and regret) that this service requires Flash, so you can’t use Haiku to view this event, you must use another OS like Windows, Mac or Linux.
This year, HDU (short for Haiku Down Under; not slang for How Dare yoU) were able to book a conference venue at The University of Queensland with projector, white board and limited seating where myself, Sikosis was joined by BeMark and Mojodale.
The coding period of the Google Summer of Code is now over since this Monday,
and it's time to give to the Haiku Community a debrief of what has been done on
my initial project, what has been modified, and what remains to do.
The fundamental parts of the journal code are finished. Although they still need more testing, and they can change as more of the Ext3 code is written, they are ready for supporting the first steps in write support for ext2 and ext3 volumes. This blog post explains the code, and how it is organized to handle ext2 and ext3 volumes.
Over the next few weeks, I'll be trying to document some tangible non-C/C++ tasks.
They'll usually be things that I've wanted to do or have been meaning to do, but
for whatever reason haven't gotten around to doing them.
For each task, there'll a description of what it is,
how it helps the project, and hopefully some information to help you get started.
First of all, thank a lot for your generous donations! It was really stunning to see how much money could be raised in such a short time. And since it’s been some time since my last commit, I thought it would be a good idea to report what I’m currently up to. But first, let’s have a look at what I did last week for the most part:
I started to fix some annoying bugs in the FreeBSD compatibility layer.
So, I’m still working on the locale kit. Here are some things I did since last time :
The book is finally done! Getting through the proof copy took so much longer than I ever expected. Luckily, right now I’m out of town with a lot more time on my hands, so I had a lot more time to be able to sit down and get through it. It has been published through Lulu.com so that a great deal more of the profit from the book goes to me instead of the pockets of a book retailer.
There is great news from the 2010 GSoC midterms… Atis' GSoC work thus far on IPv6 has been merged into the main-line Haiku trunk by Axel due to its quality.
Apply the buildfile diff attached to this post, to any post-r37604 sources to give IPv6 a whirl. Please keep in mind the IPv6 code is still extremely early, using IPv6 may result in dreaded KDL’s and other general bugginess. See below for Atis' example usage of the IPv6 modules.
Bug reports on the new IPv6 support can be made on Trac under the Network & Internet » IPv6 component.
The LKL-based Haiku driver has progressed well in the last few weeks.
The set of features already implemented:
mounting and unmounting ext3, ext4 disk images*, both read-only and read-write listing file system attributes (read-only/read-write, file system size, number of files created, number of files remaining to be created, etc.) browsing the contents of any folder on the file system listing file permissions, owner, group, type (directory, symlink, regular file, etc.
Hello readers !
Last week we were at the RMLL (Libre Software Meeting) in France, with François (mmu_man) and Olivier (oco). Haiku has beed holding a booth and giving some talks in this conference for some years now, and it’s nice to go and meet people again.
