Re: Two questions for gkrellm on windows

On Wednesday, October 06, 2010, you wrote:
> On 06.10.10 14:23, Jack wrote:
> > On 2010.10.02 12:13, Stefan Gehn wrote:
> >> On 10/02/2010 05:53 PM, Jack wrote:
> >>> I'll try the beta - if posted means to this list, I assume I can find it
> >>> in the archives. If not, I'd appreciate a link.
> >>>
> >> Actually the archives seem to have lost everything between January
> >> 16th and August 16th (is that thing running on Windows? *g*).
> >
> > There are only four posts between August 16 and September 20, and then
> > nothing until three posts today. Can anybody check if there is really
> > something wrong with the server?
> 
> That would probably be Rio (CCed him because of what we both saw).
> 
> 

unfortunately there was a severe disk problem which skipped most of the blocks holding 
those msgs along with many many other things. we attempted disk recovery but it was not 
going to happen so we had to do with putting what we had on the new disks. unfortunately 
it went on long enough before it was troublesome enough that we were able to notice it 
that it also skipped the blocks when backing up to the mirror sites. so yes, those months 
are unfortunately lost.

most of the time when some blocks go haywire the system would scream until someone paid 
attention to fix it, but these failed in such a way that somehow they just got skipped 
over without errors in the logs. there was only one application that gave an error but it 
hardly ever is used, maybe once or twice a year if that,  and when i tried it is when i 
noticed a disk error and took steps to correct it and found the extent it covered.

we have since placed the virtual server on a machine using a raid 60 array with 2 spares 
for each of the 2 array elements, so i expect this problem will not show up again.

i apologize for the lost msgs but this one was something that was out of anyone's control.


> > What I was looking for was a link to the source for the windows version,
> > tarball or svn. Is there any point in my even trying to get it to
> > compile under Cygwin, or would I be wasting my time?
> 
> I guess it's a waste of time because the windows-port requires Gtk+ with 
> a win32-backend, not one based on X11. The port is meant to be built on 
> MinGW inside a shell-environment (either Cygwin with a MinGW compiler 
> installed or MSYS).
> Eventually we should decouple the windowing-code from the 
> information-gathering-code, that would make building on OS X easier as 
> well (OS X has Gtk+/X11 and Gtk+/Quartz, Makefiles have one target for 
> each).
> 
> Right now you may grab the source at (repository may change to Mercurial 
> after 2.3.5 is out):
> https://svn.srcbox.net/projects/gkrellm/trunk/
> 
> I haven't packaged sources mainly because there usually is no need to 
> compile things yourself on windows. Furthermore official releases share 
> the same codebase, i.e. the release-tarball made by Bill is used for 
> building the win32-binaries.
> 
> Bye,
> Stefan Gehn
> 
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