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diff --git a/src/journal/5-hello-yawa.rst b/src/journal/5-hello-yawa.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8cb896d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/journal/5-hello-yawa.rst @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +.. frontmatter + title: Hello, yawa! + date: 2014-11-11 + author: Johannes Löthberg + author_link: /~kyrias/about.html + +So after HalosGhost asked a couple of times for me to add hsetroot-git to my +Arch Linux repository I tried looking for their repo and noticed that there +weren’t one, that the last release was in 2003 and that the upstream website has +been “down for maintenance” for 3 year. Uh-oh. + +After some prodding around I found an old tarball of the last release and +imported that into git and build a package, but looking at the code made me +rather unhappy because it was an unholy monster of autotools, mixed space/tab +indentation, inconsistent naming and rather verbose manual argument parsing. +(Though on the plus side it *was* checking that the arguments were of an +appropriate type, and that’s something I guess.) + +The quick lookover I decided to try to clean it up a bit, and it is in large +part thanks to talking with HalosGhost about it that I didn’t just give up more +or less right away even when it felt pointless or hopeless. When it felt a bit +pointless to just do some small touch-ups I rather quickly decided to fork the +project and ended up renaming it “yawa”, (HalosGhost stole the name from +hsetroot’s slogan, “yet another wallpaper application,”) and here we are a week +later and I’ve managed to replace autotools with CMake_, replace the custom +argument parsing with glibc’s argp library, managed to break some duplication of +parsing the strings into separate functions ints/uints/doubles, written a +manpage, and have finally implemented all switches. + +With all of that job done (which arguably wasn’t *that* much, but still not +*litle* either) I’m officially announcing version 0.9.0 of yawa_ that is now a +fully feature-complete fork of hsetroot, which is to say that all of hsetroot’s +functionality should be implemented. Since there’s no test suite, (although I’d +like being able to write one,) and I don’t have much use for most of the +functionality it’s quite possible that there are some lingering bugs that I +haven’t found yet which is why I’m releasing this as 0.9.0 instead of 1.0.0, and +I would appreciate it if as many as possible test it out and report any bugs +found on the github `issue tracker`_ so I can try to fix it as quickly as I can. + +yawa, being a fork of hsetroot, is currently licensed under the GPLv2 license, +and while I could live with that I would prefer being able to relicense it under +the `ISC license`_ instead since I think that it’s a more free license for the +user, so I tried sending an email to the previous developer listed in the +AUTHORS file asking for permission, and I hope that I will get a (preferably +positive) reply back soon. + +.. _CMake: http://www.cmake.org/ +.. _yawa: http://git.kyriasis.com/kyrias/yawa/ +.. _issue tracker: https://github.com/kyrias/yawa/issues +.. _ISC license: https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/isc-license/ |