Porthole-0.4.0 released

[dol-sen]

I finally got 0.4.0 finnished.

Get it here https://sourceforge.net/projects/porthole/
There is a (portage overlay)/app-portage/porthole directory tarball as one of the files in the release as well as the source tar.bz2 and md5sum.

look for bug :https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67198
for the release submission.


Changes since -0.3.1

0.4.0:
* Added the date & time of the last sync to the "Sync" button tooltip

* changed the chagelog loading to to check the portage overlay directory if a changelog
is not found. Then try decoding it using utf_8 first (soon to be the official
encoding method). If that fails then try decoding using iso-8859-1 which many
new changelogs are saved with that encoding. Finally failing both those it
displays "an unknown encoding method" error instead.

* Changed the summary view to use the better of the (best unmasked or installed masked
ebuid version) or the best masked version if no unmasked version is available.
It also diplays which ebuild version was used for the properties display.

* eliminated unnesseary DB reloads if running custom commands with the -p flag.

* The view can be changed from the upgrades view while it is loading to another
one with out disruption when the loading is complete. Switching back to the
upgrades view when the user is ready.

* Added confirmation that you want to kill a running process when the quit/close
button is selected in either window.

* Starting a upgrades load then switching to a different view is not interupted
with the upgrades list when complete. The upgrades view needs to be selected
again to see it. That way it does not disrupt what you are doing/looking at.

* some code changes to work with both newer & depricated gtk functions. It should
work without printing deprication warnings or function call errors/failures.

* updated to use the new & pre portage-2.0.51 as the world file is relocated
as of 2.0.51

* Added an internal progress bar in a second statusbar on the main window.
I will probably merge the 2 statusbars in the future, depending on feedback.
The new progress bar does not tie up the gui from any other interation like
the dialog box did until it was closed.

* Advanced emerge toolbar option & dialog giving fairly easy access to most
advanced emerge features & options. TOC worked hard on this one and I think
he did a great job on it.

* Help is now working (not complete) with a good start on the basics and help on the advanced
emerge options.

* The web browser is now opened from a threaded function call so that it does not
tie up the gui untill it is closed. It also is used to open a browser to the
help files that are now in porthole.

* Database reloads can be manually activated by menu option. Good for when an
emerge has taken place independantly from an open porthole session.

* Portage modules imported into porthole can be manually reloaded in order for
porthole to see changes in /etc/make.conf, etc. Also usefull if portage was
updated to a new version . It will reload the new version just emerged.

* Added pycrash detection and inclusion into porthole. The crash log file saved
can be very usefull for debugging.

* Selectable upgrades only or standard upgrade/downgrade upgrades list selection

* Intermittent autoscroll bug now fixed.

* Porthole now uses a semaphore system to prevent collisions accessing or modifying
variables by different/threaded program modules, functions. It has helped prevent
many of the crashes/segfaults.

* gettext internationalization support now started. Most text strings are now marked,
readying for full translation/localization.

* improved terminal output, so that wget, etc. display their progress bar, etc.

* numerous other bug fixes.

* Changed the default window size to something quite small. For those that start porthole
in lower resolutions. It remembers any size changes between sessions anyway.

* Added a -h, --help option to portholes command line interface

* The version sorting routine has been re-written again, portage is/has just
changed it's version comparison code. Also the code I released in -0.3.1
also failed badly for a few odd version strings.

* The hyperlinks for home pages has been patched to fix multiple homepage listings
in the summary view. Thanks to jonathanl for this patch.

* the terminal process view will show the download progress almost like it would in
a normal terminal.

* The browser opens from a threaded function now so that the rest of porthole
will no longer be frozen until the browser is closed. It also now allows multiple
pages to be opened.

* The gtk horizontal pane bug is now caught and corrected as porthole opens.

* On completion of a terminal task the main porthole db is now reloaded without
disrupting the current view. The package being viewed is reloaded automatically.
The upgrades view is the only one that requires a disruptive rebuild. Sorry, I
could not get it to work non-disruptively. I believe it is due to the checkboxes.

* USE flags are now displayed with a +/- as well as being colored to show their current
setting. Original feature patch submitted by jonathanl.

I will be unavailable for a few days, but should be able to check back by Thursday.
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[Pink]

Been looking forward to this for a while

Just one small problem with the ebuild:

[Ruzbeh]

Woot.

THANKS!

[dol-sen]

I don't know why it is doing that. I got that when I was testing the ebuild. But it did not after the last edit to it, so I thought it was fixed.
I just checked the ebuild tarballs I uploaded to sourceforge & bugs.gentoo.org and they are the same as the last one I have.

It was apparently a syntax error, but I don't know what exactly is wrong with it.

Hopefully someone will know hoow to fix it and post a corrected ebuild. I have to go to a funeral out of town in a couple hours.
I'll be back in a couple days.
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[Ruzbeh]

Can I ask you a question?

Doesn't it compromise security a lil if you run X programs that require root access? Or am I wrong?

[WhyteWolf]

[dol-sen]

I'm back. I have corrected the ebuild. Thank you WhyteWolf.

The corrected portage overlay ebuild tarball is now on the sourceforge site. I still need to edit porthole's homepage and bring it up to date.

[dol-sen]

I made a mistake when I was updating setup.py.

I forgot to add advemerge.glade to the list of files to install. I have a new tar.bz2 file ready but I'm not sure yet if I should change the version number.

In the meantime don't try using the advanced emerge feature.
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[Cintra]

OK!

Installed with no crashes...

regards
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[dol-sen]

To update you with what is happenning....

There were a couple mistakes in the -0.4.0 version which did not show up in preliminary testing which I have now fixed. Also there is some requests (suggestions) to change the way porthole is installed to better handle python updates, etc.. I think I have it changed correctly and am now waiting for confirmation that it is ok.

Look for a -0.4.1 release very soon.
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