Month: July 2009
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Packaging Adventure
I am about to embark on the epic journey which is Bongo packaging on the OpenSUSE Build Service. Now that I have succumbed to this task I wanted to establish a few things. In the Build service there are many many distributions available for build. Most of the distributions are very old. This leaves me…
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The Bongo Images will no longer be built on the rPath environment
For quite some time now we have been using the rPath rBuilder system to create images for the project. I have also used it for a few other projects. Things have been going quite well until someone at rPath decided that they needed to reinvent their web interface. Now I don’t mind change and innovation…
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Bongo 0.5.2 Package Released on rPath
The new Bongo package has been compiled, packaged and promoted so it should now be available to those running the images. This version has a number of fixes that were highlighted by the change to the cmake compiler. Thanks to the hard work of Alex and Patrick we are now in a position to say…
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Mono Goings On
I too have been watching the Mono debate with some interest as I am in the process of creating a Mono API for the Bongo Store. This interests me as I do not want to spend time working on something that will stop any distribution from running such a great app like Bongo. What worries…