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Just a quick note: The 1.5.7 basically only has a better database
(cleaned up and minimized) code and now supports a private entry
database in each users home directory.
Check it out, I'd like to bring out a stable version asap.
Regards,
Georg
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I have rewritten the old menu pretty much completely because it
was just too bloated... the new one should be nicer and faster
as well as less buggy *cross fingers*. Of course there will be
some things I did not find, so check it out.
The PLUGIN should now work correctly and has been added to the
customization - check it out, I think it's a cool feature. If
you intend to use "sed" for your plugins please don't forget to
read README.sed !!
What's left is the style things so the colors are nice again and
then things should be stabilized. Once they are there will be the
next stable release - so please check everything out thoroughly.
As usual all feedback goes to:
beta-xlogmaster@gnu.org
Regards,
Georg
P.S. Ralf had some problems with the Database - it crashed for wierd
reasons and I have not found the time yet to track this down... please
verify this does not happen on your machine.
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It's been awhile since I released the last version. The 1.5.4 version
of the Xlogmaster should be GTK+ 1.2.0 compliant and the data
handling routines have been modified a lot. The database also saw
quite some work and should be much nicer now. Once these two points
can be considered stable I want to release 1.6.0.
Still a little to go. The latest feature is the "plugin"
thing - you can pipe all data through a plugin before it gets
displayed. All the plugin has to do is to read on stdin and write to
stdout. This way one could actually write a program that translates
cryptic logfiles into human digestable output. This isn't completed
yet and probably the most unstable part. You also cannot include it
via the customize menu but you'll need to edit it by hand.
The style files don't seem to be working right for me with the GTK+
1.2.0 - if anyone feels willing to update them I'd appreciate that
very much...
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This is version 1.5.3 of the Xlogmaster and there haven't been too
many changes. The RUN mode should be reliably and stable now (*cross
fingers*) and there are keyboard accelerators for the menu and the
entries (try 1-0 and CTRL 1-0 )... the database is not ready yet and
will be the next thing to work on.
If you need this to be a stable version (for the SuSE people
especially), do the following:
In src/menu.cc comment out line 503. This will just prevent the
"Database" button from showing up and hence effectively disable the
database which is the main source of "betaness" at the moment.
All the others: check out the Database, feedback on this part would be
very much appreciated !
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Alright, 1.5.2 is here. All changes have basically been related to the
configuration. The sounds & scripts can now be put in another place
than the main configuration via the XLM-LIB things in configure or as
an environment variable... hopefully I also fixed the problem with no
explicit prefix and and the problem on systems with REGEX functions
but without include files...
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Since the notes for 1.5.1 are still valid, here is what I have said to
it - I'd still like some feedback on stability and the database:
So this is the version 1.5.1 of the Xlogmaster... I did a lot of
work on it and will do even more before releasing it as a stable
version again.
Things I'd like to focus your attention on are:
- Does it compile & install fine on your machine ?
- Do the REGEXes work ?
- Does the Xlogmaster catch logfile rotation or does it
stop reading ?
- Does the reconfiguration work ?
- Is the RUN mode stable and working the way you'd expect it to ?
About the Database:
- I supplied some demo files so you can see how things work... please
feel free to check it out (and stress it while doing so) - try to get
it to crash on the database and try to create your own entries... any
hints/suggestions/ideas about what is missing ?
- I'd like to find a smart way of supplying people with a reasonable
database at installation on all systems to chose from, so any ideas
about how to implement this in the distribution would be appreciated.
If you intend to supply some feedback (be blessed, my son/daughter), I
strongly suggest you subscribe to the betatesters mailinglist. For
details about how to subscribe please check out:
http://ww.gnu.org/software/xlogmaster/xlogmaster.html
Other ways you could help me improving the Xlogmaster would be
contributing to the documentation...
DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT VERSION THAT WILL PROBABLY HAVE BUGS
AND MIGHT CAUSE PROBLEMS - DO NOT EXPECT IT TO BE 100% STABLE AND
RELIABLE, I DO NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY !!!
Regards,
Georg C. F. Greve <greve@gnu.org>
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