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So, the holidays are over. That was nice. We walked a lot, about 3 hours a day, biked, swam, and in a more general manner, we didn’t rest very much :-)

Here are a few other photos.

I’m off for a full week of holidays. Yay! I’m just crossing fingers about the network and servers at work (please don’t break while I’m away), and also about Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13, which Paul just released (please don’t find bugs, users).

On the other hand, I’m going there:

So, it’s very possible that I just forget about it all :-)

I worked a bit on Sylpheed-Claws plugins and gpgme support !
So, to make it short, SC now sports:

• gpgme-1.0 support
• a new pgpcore plugin, used by both pgpmime and pgpinline
• a plugin dependancy system, so that loading pgpmime loads pgpcore automatically, or spamassassin_gtk loads spamassassin. Removing a plugin also removes the ones that depend on it.

Yeah! 1.9.13 is going to take over the world!

Londres
Il y a eu des attentats hier à Londres, avec un bilan de plus de 30 morts… J’hallucine! Qu’est-ce qu’ils croient résoudre par ce genre d’action ? En quoi cela peut-il aider leur cause ? Quelle cause, d’ailleurs ?… Aucune revendication claire n’a été faite !
Toutes mes pensées aux Londoniens. Je ne sais pas trop quoi dire d’autre :-/

La guerre des mondes
Malgré l’avis de Hoa, je suis allé le voir. Faut dire que j’ai une carte Illimitée de l’Empire du Mal^W^W^W l’UGC, donc ça me coûte pas trop d’aller voir des navets. Bon, je n’irais pas jusqu’à dire que c’en était un, mais c’était bien Hollywoodien comme il faut, quand même. (En même temps, à quoi d’autre s’attendre d’un film de Spielberg avec Cruise). La mention de Dieu a la fin, avec les violons qui vont avec et compagnie, c’était quand même pas mal…

Sylpheed-Claws
Cette nuit, j’ai écrasé un très vieux bug avec une satisfaction intense. En plus j’ai pu l’écraser de manière non-intrusive pour les utilisateurs. Vous pouvez maintenant partager votre ~/Mail entre un PC et un Mac ou une Sun!

From El Reg:

The European Parliament has voted by a massive majority to reject the software patents directive, formally known as the Directive on the Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions. The vote to scrap the bill was passed by a margin of 648 votes to 14, with 18 abstentions.

Hooray! Thanks to the FFII and everyone involved for this!

Paul pointed me to a few crashers in Sylpheed-Claws last night. Crashes happened when you unloaded some plugins, then used features these plugins extended. In the end the fixes were stupid one-liners about missing de-registration, like in mailmbox:

 void plugin_done(void)
 {
+        folder_unregister_class(mailmbox_get_class());
 }

Leaving the folder_class registered and unloading the code that handled it was, of course, condemned to bug. It looks like non-sexy stuff like unloading a plugin isn’t tested enough. Who’d want to unload my nice plugin anyway !?
While I was at it, I made a few other micro-fixes from place to place.
Still about Claws… Hoa’s IMAP work, which consists of replacing the bag of hacks that was imap.c with a libetpan-based solution, does not get a huge feedback on the mailing-list. Congrats Hoa, that means that it works for most of the people ;-)

Finally, don’t forget to cross your fingers about software patents in the EU today.

Oktay answered us, and he put the new DNS in place. So we now have control over the sylpheed.org domain. It is slowly going live as DNS servers notice the change…
I hope everything will go fine! Probably we’ll be able to replace http://sylpheed-claws.sf.net/ by a redirection to the new http://claws.sylpheed.org/.
If someone wants an @sylpheed.org email address forwarding to pop account, let me (or Paul) know!