this is a bit trickty, since we need to install gcc-4.9 from a PPA.
Mint only provides the libstdc++ 4.8, which is known to break when
compiling in C++14 mode
NOTE: we have the policy to always support current Debian/stable
amd at least one Ubuntu LTS release, unless hard dependency problems prevent that.
Currently, Ubuntu/Trusty is already a bit dated, but the only problematic dependency
could be libboost (1.54 in Trusty, 1.55 in Jessie).
GCC-4.8 can be replaced by GCC-4.9 in Trusty without problems
It is always a bit tricky to find out the precise lower boundary,
so we try to upgrade these requirements as our platform progresses.
For now we have used the level available on Ubuntu/Trusty to set
the lower constraints for most libraries
This page gives the rationale for the way our diff framework is built.
This reasoning might *reduce* the relevance of any decisions
regarding the implementation data structure and thus lead to
far reaching consequences for the whole architecture.
This means we have rather tight compiler requirements now.
Beyond that, we expect no serious impact; the most notable
C++14 feature we're likely to use soon is type inference
on lambda arguments.
This switches the Lumiera UI from GTK-2 to GTK-3
Unfortunately, this move breaks two crucial features, which have been
disabled for now: the display of video and our custom timeline widget.
Since both of these require some reworking, which in fact has already
started, we prefer to do the library and framework switch right away.
This too was a long-standing issue. While these practices
basically can be considered "common knowledge", experience
showed those topics are frequently unknown even to practised
programmers.
So now we have a single page dealing with all those issues of
code bloat, dependency poliferation, binary dependency resolution
and issues of transitive and circular library dependencies
the corresponding requirements are already reflected in the
SCons build, see Platform.py
NOTE: the current debian package is still based on the preview
Release 0.2.pre from last year. It will be upgraded probably after
the transition to Jessie as reference system
This piece of documentation describes an insideous special case, which
some time ago prevented us from switching to --as-needed linking.
We treat this as a special case (and it is way easier to do so
now, after the reorganisation of our test suite).
deliberately, I've left #948 open to nudge me about writing this doc
This is very arkane, hard to find knowledge about some intricacies
of the dynamic library resolution. Very relevant for Lumiera,
since we use a resolution scheme relative to the location
of the executable. Documenting this stuff was a long-standing issue
a long standing TODO to document the actual start-up sequence, which
is implemented this way since a long time now. There was an unwritten
section in the "Linking and Application Structure", which seems the
apropriate place for this kind of intricate techincal details.
Last week, Benny Lyons was here on visit in munich and he was pondering
the idea of an experimental secondary build system, as a way to learn
more about the source structure of Lumiera. This reminded me to fill
some missing parts of the documentation. Possibly this is also the
right moment to land the GTK-3 transition?
This means to discontinue any research into emitting an optimal
diff verb sequence for now and just to document the possible path
I see to reach at such a optimal solution later, when it turns out
to be really necessary performance wise.
Personal note: I arrived at this conclusion while whatching the
New Year fireworks 2014/2015 at the banks of the Isar river in
the centre of the city.
Too sad that 2014 didn't bring us World War III
Uniform sequence at start of source files
- copyright claim
- license
- file comment
- header guard
- lumiera includes
- library / system includes
Lumiera uses Brittish spelling. Add an according note to the styleguide.
note down some results found out during the C++11 transition.
There is now a clear distinction between automatic type conversion
and the ability to construct a new instance
The XV-Viewer widget in our GUI uses four direct calls
to the X-Lib. This was discovered by strict dependency checking,
as mandated by new Debian policy
Note: this drops some backwards compatibility. We're targeting now
roughly the range between Ubuntu-Precise (LTS) and Debian/testing,
with Debian/stable as the reference system.
The naming scheme for Boost-Libraries was adjusted with Boost-1.42
for Unix-Platforms. Now the '-mt' suffix isn't included any more, but
the libraries available through the usual packaging mechanisms can be
assumed to be thread safe.
See also http://issues.lumiera.org/ticket/759
* rfcs are now all stored in the rfc folder (formerly hold the final rfcs)
* a new rfc_final folder is created
* the state folders (rfc_final|pending|parked|dropped) now contain
symlinks back to the rfc pool
Add a page to the 'coding howto' section, listing those boost libraries we're
using heavily, with a short characterisation for each. Plus some informations
about potential problems
