Roo’s Ramblings

Woo hoo!

I’m so out of the Arch Linux loop at the moment. My broadband still isn’t working. I’ve canceled my account with my previous ISP (Wanadoo) for being utterly useless (i.e., taking a month to not transfer my broadband to my new address). My new ISP (BT) has promised connection for next Thursday, which isn’t bad. So, until then, I’m still on rubbish dial-up.

Anyway, tonight I realised that Jacman had made it community which is great! Thanks all for voting and for providing feedback. Not having broadband has in fact been hindering progress for the next version significantly. I haven’t been syncing with the CVS server so I can’t see what Sonix has been upto, and vice-versa. I had made a couple of significant improvements a while back, namely multi-language support and a proper preferences dialog for configuring Jacman’s options. Sonix was playing with some other features which I won’t give away just yet. Unfortunately, there’s still no news from the AUR guys regarding a sensible way for accessing the AUR database. (C’mon guys - please! Pretty please!

Basically, this time next week I’d like to release the next version. I don’t want people to think that we’ve given up working on it because that’s far from the truth. There’s still plenty of potential for it improve and add useful functionality. It’s just the circumstances of new job; new life and no broadband that’s causing some delays.