Well, in Gentoo anyway ;) A developer called max had the package, but as he’s been inactive for over a year so he’s been “retired” and I took it! Which makes me the maintainer for dhcpcd, pump and now dhcp (dhclient). Yay :)
So I’ve closed all outstanding bugs (some marked NEEDINFO, UPSTREAM or TEST-REQUEST) bar one which should be solved when 3.0.4 goes into portage. I may put 3.0.4b2 in when 3.
I’ve been a long time GNOME user pretty much since the start. I dabbled with GNOME and KDE when they were both in their early infancy (ie pre version 1) and finally settled on GNOME. KDE was (at the time) too slow, very klunky and loads of bugs. And it looked naff too!So, a long time using GNOME and yay life was good.
But recently, life has not been to good for me in GNOME land.
Ever since baselayout-1.11 first came into being, I’ve never been totally happy with the internal API I’ve been using. Well, with the release of baselayout-1.12.0_pre11 I think I’ve finally cracked it. Each module is now around 800- 1000 bytes smaller than the ones we’ve been using thus far. The only function we now require is modulename_depend()- all the others are now optional.
With-r1 which fixes a few critical bugs, I think we’re finally stable across the board.
Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
So we added a whole bunch of new shiny features to baselayout of late, one of these included new parallel startup code which required a better service dependency and ordering function. New parallel was nice and fast :) , whereas the new dependency and ordering function was dawg slow bro :(After much head scratching, there wasn’t too much more optimizing that we could do at the time. The trace_dependencies functions has been re-written a few times to solve bugs and try and make it faster.
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