Sometimes trying to avoid creating a Debian package is more work than actually creating the package. Before I got deep into coding modifications of Diamond I wanted to get a GUI GDB front end. Yes, I can use Emacs GDB interface and have, but I quasi-suck at the command line. Yes, I would get better over time, but I had used Gede before and it works rather nice. Besides, I’m currently helping on the family … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 5Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 4
Keep in mind I have a minimal Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on this system and will be building PostgreSQL support into CopperSpice. The Building for Unix instructions assume a full installation and even then aren’t complete. By using a minimal install I can help even non-Ubuntu users because I will find everything that got missed. One of the first things I want to do is try converting my XpnsQt project from Qt to CopperSpice. This and … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 4Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 3
The base system First off I need to tell you the system I will be using. This system has a recent minimal install of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with all updates applied. BOINC, Nvidia drivers, and Gui Emacs are just about the only other things I installed. It’s an older system that I have run BOINC until I need it for some project. That 160 GB drive is pretty old too. I do hope it makes … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 3Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 2
Diamond is cross platform. It runs on Linux and other platforms supported by CopperSpice. There are some things I would like to try adding and donating back to the community. Themes – Right now you can just set individual colors but I would like to enhance that part to add the ability to save named sets of colors. I intend to try setting up a few from the world of Emacs that I like so … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 2Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments Pt. 1
CopperSpice is a fork of Qt 4.8 sans the icky nasty bug infested (and infesting) QML. Lots of bad things have been cleaned up, like replacing UTF-8 under the hood with QChar32 so every character requires same amount of space. Yes, it wastes a bit of RAM, but there is a lot less overhead. Qt Company has offended the bulk of the Qt developer community with its new licensing stance. Not to mention its attitude … CopperSpice Experiments Pt. 1Read more