RFC: New Toucan Progress Box
As I mentioned in my last blog post I am working on a new progress box for Toucan, so after getting Pre-release 2 out of the door earlier I have done some work on it.The progress box is probably the...
View ArticleWhen to release?
This is just a post of my recent musings with regards to when to publish a release of a program: So I have been thinking recently about how to deal with Toucan development in the future, specifically...
View ArticleHeading Upstream
Well I have just posted a patch to the wxWidgets Trac system, as far as I know the first time that PortableApps.com has submitted a patch to an upstream project, and long may it continue! If you are...
View ArticleMilestones
Just to let you know Toucan hit 2 milestones last week! The first was the release of Toucan 2.0.4 one week ago (January 15), the tenth release of Toucan. Also on Saturday (January 17) Toucan hit...
View ArticleToucan moves to Mercurial
As of the middle of last week Toucan now uses the Sourceforge Mercurial code repository rather than SVN.The main reason for using a distributed system such as Mercurial is that it allows me to commit...
View ArticleVSS Support
I am disappointed to say that Toucan will not use the Volume Snapshot Service in a future version. The idea behind VSS is that it allows you to copy files which are in use, for example an Outlook .pst...
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7.5*10^5 is the magic number
Some time over the last couple of days Toucan hit 750,000 downloads! Thanks to everyone who has downloaded and used it, especially the beta testers and translators. More exciting news about Toucan and...
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Toucan 3 Teasers
Just a couple of quick pics of some new stuff I am cooking up for Toucan 3: What you can't see is the fact that Toucan should now run off a read-only device, anyone got a good way of simulating one if...
View ArticleThe Future of Toucan – Part 2
The Command LineThe other main weak point in Toucan is the command line interface, mainly because it breaks, a lot. So whilst reworking the scripting system I also decided to redo the command line...
View ArticleThe Future of Toucan – Part 3
Moving to CMakeBefore releasing a version of Toucan on Linux the build system needed cleaning up. Rather than create projects on Windows and writing makefiles on Linux I decided to use a proper build...
View ArticleThe Future of Toucan – Part 4
The Help FileThe help file is also undergoing, once again, major changes for version 3. Rather than integrating it into Toucan itself I have decided to split it out, into a separate pdf document.
View ArticleFOSDEM Thoughts
As promised I am going to do a quick summery of the time I had at FOSDEM 2010. FOSDEM itselfI thought the meet-up itself was very well organised, there were lots of well manned stands, including most...
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Quick Status Update
Just to let you all know I still exist I have been keeping watch over the forums when I can, things are pretty busy here right now as it is end of year exam time at my university and I am taking part...
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Toucan hits 1 million!
Some time over the past couple of days Toucan has had its millionth download Although you can't see it from the stats because you can only seem to get them since February (if anyone knows how to see...
View ArticleRFC: New Toucan Progress Box
As I mentioned in my last blog post I am working on a new progress box for Toucan, so after getting Pre-release 2 out of the door earlier I have done some work on it.The progress box is probably the...
View ArticleWhen to release?
This is just a post of my recent musings with regards to when to publish a release of a program: So I have been thinking recently about how to deal with Toucan development in the future, specifically...
View ArticleHeading Upstream
Well I have just posted a patch to the wxWidgets Trac system, as far as I know the first time that PortableApps.com has submitted a patch to an upstream project, and long may it continue! If you are...
View ArticleMilestones
Just to let you know Toucan hit 2 milestones last week! The first was the release of Toucan 2.0.4 one week ago (January 15), the tenth release of Toucan. Also on Saturday (January 17) Toucan hit...
View ArticleToucan moves to Mercurial
As of the middle of last week Toucan now uses the Sourceforge Mercurial code repository rather than SVN.The main reason for using a distributed system such as Mercurial is that it allows me to commit...
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