One real world issue with source control systems is the handling of end-of-line characters in text files. Currently Mercurial pretty much punts. The hg book says:
Note: The Windows version of Mercurial does not automatically convert line endings between Windows and Unix styles. If you want to share work with Unix users, you must do a […]
Here is a patch (against a slightly out of date updater.cpp on the Mozilla 1.8 branch) that would add support for a:
customaction “relative-path-to-executable”
action in the “update.manifest” for a partial or full update (.mar file) for the Mozilla update system.
I’m just chucking this up here quickly for lack of a better place to put it right […]
Komodo uses the Mozilla extension mechanism — same .xpi files as Firefox to install an extension, same kind of bundle content in an extension. However, Komodo adds a number of “hooks” that can be used to customize Komodo with an extension (see the end of this post).
In Komodo 4.2 (currently in beta) we’ve been working […]
Yesterday we (ActiveState) announced Open Komodo, an open-source project seeded with much of the core of Komodo Edit and Komodo IDE with the goals of produce a platform/framework for and (codename Komodo Snapdragon) an IDE for client-side open web development.
That’s a mouthful. Shane and David have done a good job giving some wider perspective […]
Mini-mick (a.k.a. Ewan Mick) arrived about three weeks ago. I am so happy to have him and proud of my wife Alli.
In some ways, having a child is like a little boy’s dream come true: farts and poos are acceptable entertainment!
