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We’ve done some quick flyers (with inkscape) to promote the GSoC program among students. Feel free to use them and help us.

We’ve done some quick flyers (with inkscape) to promote the GSoC program among students. Feel free to use them and help us.

Do you enjoy programming? Audio and Music software is your thing? Tired of working in FLOSS projects without getting paid? Need a part-time job for this summer? (If the answer to any of these questions is YES, keep reading…) We are happy to announce ... [More] that the CLAM project is participating in the 2007 edition of Google’s Summer of Code. Updated: Google’s SoC is already open for aplications. More information in the CLAM GSoC 2007 wiki page. Google Summer of Code is a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects. Google will be working with a several open source, free software and technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period. Historically, the program has brought together over 1,000 students with over 100 open source projects, to create hundreds of thousands of lines of code. The program, which kicked off in 2005, is now in its third year, following on from a very successful 2006. We are very excited to offer a number of ideas that would benefit CLAM now that it is about to reach its 1.0 release. If you are a student with programming skils and are interested in audio/multimedia we encourage you to apply before the March 24th deadline. We also encourage you to propose new ideas if you feel none of the ones offered by the CLAM team suits your profile or interests. Looking forward to working with you… The CLAM team [Less]

There is one topic I’d like to do a series of small articles: automatic releases. This is something we have been improving more and more in CLAM and now I feel we are getting it right. In a nutshell, managing a CLAM release used to be very time ... [More] consuming (it could take months!) now it’s like pressing a button. We’ve done a lot of things: keep the code stable in all platforms (automatic tests and testfarm is a great help here), automate the process of generating all release files which includes source tarballs, mac-osx and windows installers, debian package, and more. Of course, the apps must have the version embedded (available in the about box, for instance). And finally, all those files have to be published accessible and well organized in the web. And there’s more complexity to manage here: we provide “subversion” or “development” releases on one hand and “stable” releases on the other. The first ones look like CLAM-NetworkEditor-0.4.3_setup.exe, the second ones look like CLAM-NetworkEditor-0.4.4~svn09719_setup.exe. This last long version means: this is a svn snapshot of NetworkEditor (revision 9719) in the way of the stable version 0.4.4. And of course, we are managing versions of four applications and one set of libs. Thus, the complete version of one app includes the CLAM lib version. On the lowest level of this infrastructure we have the scripts that automatically retrieve the correct version. Today I’ve finished a code clean-up of the python module we are using. The main functions of the versionInfo.py module is this: def versionFromLocalInfo( product=’CLAM’, changesFile=”CHANGES” ) Keep reading to learn how it works. (more…) [Less]

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