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during the meantime (you can't always hack the setup :) ) i've figured out how to package firefox extensions. you know why this is usefull: when you have a pc with a big number of users, or where you have a lot of machine. so test packages for adblock and google pagerank status are available

i plan to package sessionsaver and webdeveloper, too

if you have other ideas then post the name and the url of the extension you wish!

(this article served as a base to figure out how this all works)

update: webdeveloper is also available

update2: it seems that session saver and weatherfox does not support system-wide installations...

update3: flashblock and user agent switcher pushed

new -current iso images are available, including kde-3.5 and firefox-1.5

just found an interesting offline theme installer for firefox. dunno if it works with firefox-1.5...

recently added pt and nl translations to the setup. thanks! :)

yet another milestone in the setup: except the translations, it seems that it's ready for 0.4pre1, loading language-specific fonts and gettext works again :)

just a draft about how to re-call a plugin from an other plugin in the setup:

        extern GList *plugin_list;
        int i;
        plugin_t *plugin;
        for (i=0; iname, "loadsource"))
                        plugin->run(config);
        }

here we call the loadsource plugin from an another plugin

now we have git support in darcs (it does not causes any extra dep ;) ), here is a short demo, how does it works:

$ cg-clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

this will fetch a git repo for you, as dr get does not works yet (i don't see if this is planned or not), but then do a

cd git; dr changes --last=5

and it really works fine :)

during coding the setup, i noticed some strange behaviours, i debugged then for a long time ;)

so to learn from my faults:

• strcat does not accepts a NULL pointer as a dest char*
• getenv() just gives you a pointer, you have to strdup() it if you want to modify the value

an other thing: i forgot again and again what's the difference between

step

and

next

in gdb:

• setp executes the current line of the program and stops on the next statement to be executed
• next is like step, however, if the current line of the program contains a function call, it executes the function and stops at the next line

ah, and if you want to execute the whole code line by line from the begining, you'll need

break 1

and then the usual

run