Monday, April 8, 2013

Icecream 1.0.0 released

After almost 10 years since the first version, version 1.0.0 of the Icecream distributed build tool has been released.


Yes, it's been almost a decade with us. And as it usually is with versions 1.0.0 after such a long time, it doesn't actually bring anything breadth-taking. But there of course have been some fixes and improvements since version 0.9.7, and in fact even one larger feature found its way in, out-of-the-box support for the Clang compiler, including support for its plugins. Written by yours truly, after finding out about this compiler and finding out it was pretty difficult to get it to work with 0.9.7 icecream at least in some way. And also being the reason for repeatedly bugging Coolo about another icecream release :) .

And, on the way to 1.0.0, the development repository has been moved to GitHub. Which should be good, as IMO the fact that it used to be developed in the KDE SVN helped to make the false impression that it is somehow specific to KDE, limiting its use among developers of other projects. This is probably actually the biggest feature of the 1.0.0 release.

So, thanks to everyone who has helped to make compiling a much more pleasant experience (possibly even with the added colors in the icecream monitor ;) ).




4 comments:

  1. "as IMO the fact that it used to be developed in the KDE SVN helped to make the false impression that it is somehow specific to KDE"

    reminds me of how the "KDE application means you have to run it in KDE's desktop" problem was being short-sightedly routed around by applications by distancing themselves from KDE. we addressed that pretty soundly by adjusting the brand positioning.

    that you felt the need to go to a non-free hosting site tells me we have a similar issue with *.kde.org hosting. nobody has the same problem with, e.g., apache.org hosting ... so what gives? when we have that answer, we can fix it.

    otherwise, congrats on a great new release.

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  2. I'm so happy to read this. I fondly remember the early days, watching colored bubbles compiling away like never before :-)

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  3. Gratulations and thanks for all the hard work that went into this useful dev-tool over all the years.

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