I neglected to post about last week’s meeting because not a whole lot happened. However, there was plenty to talk about this time around. So, without further ado…

Plans for a 0.92.4 Release

While 0.92.3 addressed many important problems, there were still a few small things that needed work.

Improved Options GUI

First among them was the somewhat confusing proxy options GUI. In 0.92.3, users are expected to provide a proxy URL without help text explaining what the URL should look like. Though more advanced users automatically know to provide “http://:”, many users do not. To adress this, 0.92.4 will provide the “http://” and “:”. Users will only have to fill in the blanks.

“Update Status” Button

The second improvement to be made is the addition of an “Update Status” button to the main GUI. If the user is on his local machine, this will update the list of installed packages so Keryx will know not to download any software that has been installed since project creation. One problem with this plan is that, unless users have installed the GUI dependencies, they will not be able to use the GUI on their local machine. This brings us to the third improvement…

Linux Binary

0.92.4 will include a Linux binary in addition to the Windows executable. This will eliminate the annoying process of installing the wxWidgets packages on Linux machines to enable use of the GUI.

Karmic and LTS “Default” Projects

Lastly, with the release of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) yesterday, it will not be long before the Jaunty default projects are outdated. In addition to Karmic default projects, 0.92.4 will include default projects for the most recent LTS release (currently 8.04).

With that, I am off to implement the new changes. I’ll see you at next meeting!