Five Minutes :: What I Did With My Winter Holidays, Part n

Well, it's deadline time, so I'm going to push a release of the DBGp frontend formerly known as wxDBGp and now known as Dubnium out for GSWoC evaluation. Nevertheless, I don't really recommend using this just at the moment, because this release is cursed.

No, really.

In the last week, I've shredded my left knee for the second time in eighteen months, rendering me unable to drive a manual car (again), unable to walk without pain (again) and, importantly, unable to sit at a computer for long periods (again, and it's made finishing off a release difficult). On top of that, I've been wholly unsuccessful in finding hosting that doesn't suck (which rules out Sourceforge) and actually works more than 43% of the time (rules out Google Code Hosting and its entertaining array of internal server errors). To top that off, I discovered tonight that the secondary DNS for the domain that would have been the fallback has apparently chewed up my carefully crafted zone file, spat it out, and replaced it with an old one -- and, naturally, it's getting used instead of the primary for some reason I don't have time to figure out. I blame Virtualmin anyway. Oh, and my ADSL connection has spent the night going up and down entertainingly, which I suspect is a sign of imminent phone line doom (again).

It hasn't been a good few days.

So, with the venting and dire warnings out of the way, and the unhappy thought that I'm actually not really done with this and don't actually consider what's done releasable just yet, you can now get a copy of Dubnium for yourself. At some point I'll get Trac and a public Subversion server set up for it, but for now, you'll have to content yourselves with either a source tarball featuring a wacky SCons-based build process or an MSI that features absolutely no user interface, but which does actually seem to install and uninstall correctly. You can report bugs in the comments if you really want, but I'd wait for Trac.

Source tarball: dubnium-0.1.0.tar.bz2 (119kB)
Windows MSI: dubnium-0.1.0.msi (1.3MB)

Mac OS X users will have to wait a little longer, as I haven't had time to whip the application bundle generation into shape (and won't bother now that I've decided to scrap SCons as a build system and -- sigh -- move to more platform-specific systems) as will anybody wanting something that doesn't suck. I'll try to get a real release out the door when time permits, which with my courseload this semester, may be a bit further away than I'd like.

I'd say this will be my last (or next to last, if I decide to send through a post when there's a home page for Dubnium) post on Planet SoC, so if you've made it this far, thanks for reading. I'd like to thank Google once again for letting me have a go at this, and Derick for mentoring the project.

So, Dub on! Just... not until 0.2.0.

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