Exactly ten years ago, in February 2011, the first commit in ReText git repository was made. It was just a single 364 lines Python file back then (now the project has more than 6000 lines of Python code).
Since 2011, the editor migrated from SourceForge to GitHub, gained a lot …
As you may know, I am Qt 5 maintainer in Debian. Maintaning Qt means not only bumping the version each time a new version is released, but also making sure Qt builds successfully on all architectures that are supported in Debian (and for some submodules, the automatic tests pass).
An …
Some time ago, there was a thread on debian-devel where we discussed how to make Qt packages work on hardware that supports OpenGL ES, but not the desktop OpenGL.
My first proposal was to switch to OpenGL ES by default on ARM64, as that is the main affected architecture. After …
Today I have released the new major version of the ReText editor.
This release would not be possible without Maurice van der Pot who was the author of the greatest features because of which the version number was bumped:
Synchronized scrolling for Markdown. It means that the preview area scrolls …
On Sunday I have released ReText 5.3, and here finally comes the official announcement.
Highlights in this release are:
A code refactoring has been performed — a new “Tab” class has been added, and all methods that affect only one tab (not the whole window) have been moved there.
From …
Today I have released a small module for Python 3 that implements cached lazy infinite sequences.
Here are some examples that demonstrate what this module can do:
>>> InfSequence(5, 6, ...)
<InfSequence: 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...>
>>> InfSequence.geometric_progression(9)
<InfSequence: 1 9 81 729 6561 59049 ...>
>>> InfSequence.cycle('foo …Some time ago GNOME Flashback 3.16/3.17 packages landed in Debian testing and Ubuntu wily.
GNOME Flashback is the project which continues the development of components of classic GNOME session, including the GNOME Panel, the Metacity window manager, and so on.
The full changelog can be found in …