GNUe Traffic #97 For 27 Oct 2003

By Arturas Kriukovas

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  1.	19 Oct 2003		Datetime/timestamp issues
  2.	20 Oct 2003		GNUe wx forms commit bug fix
  3.	22 Oct 2003		Pre-release discussion

Introduction

1. Datetime/timestamp issues

19 Oct 2003 Archive Link: "[IRC] 19 Oct 2003"

Topics: Datetime or timestamp?

People: Bajusz Tamás, Reinhard Müller

Bajusz Tamás (btami) said he was "a little confused about datetime/timestamp in schema.sxw and in scripter timestamp is preferred, but" datetime is used in sample.gsd. Reinhard Müller (Reinhard) explained he had "only looked at the xsl files - they had datetime (some of them also had timestamp IIRC)." He promised to change datetime to timestamp.

Bajusz noticed he was "testing appserver on XP with firebird and got an error:

DB000: File "c:\python23\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 742, in close
DB000: raise Fault(**self._stack[0])
DB000: xmlrpclib.Fault: <Fault 1: "exceptions.Exception:Database returned invalid value '<DateTimeDelta object for '19:00:00.00' at c88e30>' for property 'address_meettime'">

2. GNUe wx forms commit bug fix

20 Oct 2003 Archive Link: "[IRC] 20 Oct 2003"

Topics: Form bug fix

People: Reinhard Müller

Reinhard Müller (Reinhard) noticed that when he changes "a field in a form and then *without* moving the focus away from the changed field" he commits the record, "then the diskette icon doesn't grey out after committing" . "A similar effect is that after deleting a record, the commit button remains greyed out and one has to jump to another record to make the button active to be able to commit at all" . After a small discussion with jcater, fixes to GFInstance.py and GFForm.py were committed.

3. Pre-release discussion

22 Oct 2003 Archive Link: "[IRC] 22 Oct 2003"

Topics: Misc topics discussed before release

People: Reinhard Müller, Jeff Bailey, Bajusz Tamás

Reinhard Müller (Reinhard) announced that Bajusz Tamás "installed successfully on windows. IMHO we can do releases as soon as jbailey confirms that debian packages are ok" . Jeff Bailey (jbailey) said his biggest problem was that "the pre-release version numbers are older than the numbering that I used (because I did 0.5.1.20031001). So it's quite difficult for me to test them. So I'm inclined to ask you guys to just release, and we'll run with it." It appears "0.5.1.20031001 is greater than 0.5.1.99-pre2" . Reinhard asked Jeff to "confirm that doing the debs runs ok with the tarballs i.e. that we didn't forget a file or something like that" . After some time, an interesting problem appeared: "gnue-forms-wxgtk: executable-not-elf-or-script ./usr/share/doc/gnue-forms/examples/intro/PigLatinPublicDomain.txt" . Reinhard agreed that "a lot of files have the executable bit set that shouldn't IMHO like COPYING and ChangeLog, and INSTALL, and NEWS" . Decision was taken to ignore this at the moment, but "fix it in all the CVSs in the next few weeks." No other errors were noticed.

On Sunday, Reinhard announced, that 0.5.2 releases are made.

Sharon And Joy