Having resigned myself to the fact that Wootella won't be anywhere near operation by the time I head back to school, I've decided that I'll go ahead and take time to just enjoy the rest of summer. I'd like to have time to work on some other projects of mine such as getting this website customized instead of using the almost-default style of Wordpress. But, most importantly, I would like some more free time to spend with my kitties and my fiancée.

Well, duh. I've been working on Wootella for almost three years now. Most of that time, however, has been spent learning things like how to do network programming, multithreaded programming, software documenting, different libraries, and using the GNU autotools. Because of all those excuses I've made very little progress in actually getting anything written. My goal has been to get wootella-lib functional by the time I move in at Northern Illinois University in the Fall.

After a week of trying to get gtk-doc to play nice with automake, I've succeeded. It just so happens that all the answers to all my problems were in the gtk 2.4.0 Makefile.am's. During the process of examining the wootella-lib build system I noticed a couple bugs. One being that a header file that shouldn't be installed gets installed, and the other being one I can't remember. Although, none of that should matter since I don't yet have a website up for wootella, so nobody is actually using it. Also, wootella-lib doesn't really do anything useful at the moment anyhow.

Wootella-lib 0.3.0 is released! Changes include the addition of a buffer library for parsing and assembly buffers quickly, the addition of some utility libraries including one for stacks and one for lists, and the beginnings of the main-loop for the backend are beginning to come together.

I've not coded as much on Wootella as I would have liked in the past couple of days. The reasons are mostly that I'm trying to make sure that what I do code, I do it in a way that won't trap me into re-doing large sections of work for some unforseen reason.

Well, the last two days have been very busy for me working on Wootella. My ChangeLog for the 24th and 25th consists of 46 entries. I estimate that I have coded probably around 1,500 lines in just the last 24 hours.