{"id":1374,"date":"2005-05-25T03:49:30","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T01:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/bughunting\/"},"modified":"2005-05-25T03:49:30","modified_gmt":"2005-05-25T01:49:30","slug":"bughunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/bughunting\/","title":{"rendered":"bughunting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/images\/blog\/bug.png\" alt=\"one of the bugs - history ;-)\" title=\"one of the bugs - history ;-)\" align=\"right\" class=\"showonplanet\" \/><br \/>\n\t\tDownloaded a PyKDE snapshot tonight in the hope to get the <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk\/pykde\/\">PyKDE<\/a> \/ <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk\/pyqt\/\">PyQT<\/a> \/ <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/python.org\/2.4.1\/\">Python 2.4<\/a> toolchain running in order to get a more clear idea<br \/>\nof problems loading guidance programs into kcontrol.<br \/>\n\t\tFinally got all the python 2.4 stuff to work, but according to apt there are still a couple<br \/>\nof things dependent on python 2.3, which I wanted to remove completely. Ow well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\t\tI the course of compiling PyKDE, I encountered a compile error which was caused by refering<br \/>\nto a long gone qlist.h, removed that, stuff compiled, sebas was happy. Sent that as a patch to the<br \/>\nPyKDE mailinglist, hoping it&#8217;ll help someone, maybe it&#8217;ll even make it into the next release.<br\n\/>Finally I could get back to work on <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.simonzone.com\/software\/guidance\/\">guidance<\/a>, and I had my toolchain updated so I<br \/>\ncould be a little more sure that the more obscure bugs can be fixed by myself and will not at some<br \/>\npoint just vanish by installing a binary compatible package and noticing that three weeks later,<br \/>\nstill not knowing what had been wrong.<br \/>The rest of the evening I tried to get clear what was<br \/>\ncausing the problems, it boiled down to my system having been confused by our installation script.<br \/>\nApparently not everything was quite ready for python 2.4. Well, now it should be. And then I found<br \/>\nthe root of a problem which I was seeing for more than a month and which crashed the kcontrol module<br \/>\nupon switching to <em>Administrator Mode<\/em>. Not too interesting, boiled down to stricter type<br \/>\nchecking which is generally a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tWell, fixed a couple of bugs which had me bothered for quite some time already, which is<br \/>\ngood. Let&#8217;s hope they don&#8217;t break too much &#8230; Ow, and last week it became more clear that we&#8217;re<br \/>\nmaking a good chance to get guidance into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kubuntu.org\/\">Kubuntu<\/a> soonish,<br \/>\nwhich is very exciting. :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downloaded a PyKDE snapshot tonight in the hope to get the PyKDE \/ PyQT \/ Python 2.4 toolchain running in order to get a more clear idea of problems loading guidance programs into kcontrol. Finally got all the python 2.4 stuff to work, but according to apt there are still a couple of things dependent&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/bughunting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">bughunting.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}