Gobby 0.4.2 released

Thursday, March 8. 2007

We released Gobby 0.4.2 today. It does not support that much new features, but fixes some annoyances people have complained about: The urgency hint (the window flashing when a user wrote something in the chat) is configurable, documents can be subscribed to by double-clicking them in the user list and the editor tries to keep the line you are currently editing at the same position within the viewport if others add or remove lines elsewhere.

Sobby, the dedicated server, supports initial loading of regular documents instead of serialized obby sessions. Just pass them on the command line as with sessions, sobby will detect whether its a session, and if it is not, it will open it as a document. Sobby now also allows autosaving individual documents into a directory, via the --autosave-directory command line option or the autosave_directory entry in the configuration file, respectively.

Grab them on the Downloads page on our wiki.

Furthermore, I will attend this year's FOSTEL on April 4-5 to represent Gobby there (Thanks to Openismus for making this possible). So if you ever wanted to talk to one of the Gobby developers, be sure to meet me there.

Posted by Armin Burgmeier in Gobby at 14:33 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Hi, any chance to see sobby on win32/cygwin ?

Regards,

Hassan

#1 Hassan on 2007-03-19 11:11 (Reply)

I gave it a try: http://releases.0x539.de/sobby-win32/sobby-0.4.2-win32.zip.

You will need the glibmm, libxml++, net6 and obby DLLs (from the gtkmm and gobby installer, respectively).

Note that this is a native Win32 executable, built with mingw, since I have no experience with Cygwin. There is no fancy Win32 sugar like service registration or such. Please consider it as highly experimental.

#1.1 Armin Burgmeier (Homepage) on 2007-03-19 14:49 (Reply)

Thanks a lot mate. I'll give it a shot and try to report any bugs I encounter. Again thank you very much.

#2 Hassan on 2007-03-19 17:17 (Reply)

Probably I'm asking a lot but it would be nice to have a win32 build instruction too. I tried running autoreconf in mingw but it failed (weird behavior, no meaningful error message). Probably this happened because I tried to use ActivePerl perl.exe instead of compiling and installing a fresh one under mingw. What I did before running autoreconf was "ln -s /c/perl/bin/perl.exe /bin/perl".

#3 Hassan on 2007-03-19 18:23 (Reply)

You should not be required to run autoreconf. Just grab the tarball from http://releases.0x539.de/sobby, there is a working configure script. All I had to do was to additionally pass -Wl,--enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc to the linker.

#3.1 Armin Burgmeier (Homepage) on 2007-03-19 18:31 (Reply)

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