Re: ANNOUNCE: NextSpace 0.95

[Sergii Stoian]

Hi,

On 18 Jul 2024, at 20:16, Carson Chittom <carson@chittom.family> wrote:

Hi, Sergii!

Question to clarify:  The release notes say "tested on Fedora, Ubuntu 22 and Debian 12" but then also "This release was built for 3 distributions of RedHat family: CentOS 7, Debian 12, Ubuntu 22.04, Fedora 39," which is confusing in a couple ways: there are four distributions listed, not 3, and of course Debian and Ubuntu aren't in the "RedHat family."  And then in the download artifacts there are specific tarballs for CentOS, Fedora, and Ubuntu--but not Debian.  What list of distributions is this actually expected to run on?

Despite the mistake in “was built for 3 distributions of RedHat family” description I’ve built and packaged release tarballs for CentOS 7, Fedora 39 and Ubuntu 22. Although build scripts work on Ubuntu 22.04 as well as Debian 12.

(I ask because out of curiosity I tried the Ubuntu tarball on Debian 12, and ran into some errors.)

I suppose that Ubuntu 22 and Debian 12 binary incompatible - that’s why you may have errors. You can build it for yourself or wait for tarball I’ll build later.

On July 18, 2024, Sergii Stoian <stoyan255@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello everyone!
I'm pleased to announce the new NextSpace release - 0.95.This release introduces:

• Numerous of bugfixes across the entire project;
• Serious reengineering of Workspace and Window Manager including:
   - switch to Apple's CoreFoundation for internal data structures;
   - event handling of Window Manager was implemented with CFRunLoop, CFFileDescriptor and CFNotificationCenter;
   - use XML for configuration files;
   - implemented notification interoperability between Objective C and C (external GNUstep applications may send notifications to Window Manager);
   - improved drag and drop between File Viewer and Dock;
   - implemented Cut/Copy/Paste operations for files and directories.
• Feature completion of Terminal application, including:
   - unlimited scrollback buffer support;
   - process tracking (Activity Monitor), display running program in titlebar;
   - miniwindow animation representing activity in minimized window;
   - automatic hide/show of mouse cursor.
• Workspace tracks for applications and services installation/removal, updates files in ~/Library/Services;
• Greatly improved scripts to build and install project from sources - tested on Fedora, Ubuntu 22 and Debian 12.

Look into changelog for details.

This release was built for 3 distributions of RedHat family: CentOS 7, Debian 12, Ubuntu 22.04, Fedora 39. Download it from: https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/releases/tag/0.95

-- 
Sergii Stoian, 
NEXTSPACE owner, lead developer