European Bob's Hula Hoopla!

Nat is demoing the prototype of the new Hula calendar UI. Why Nat isn't on Planet Hula I don't know; I guess he doesn't intend to blog much on Hula - so, as a public service, I'm pointing at his entry.

Amusingly enough, I'd also been playing with Hula UI this afternoon, in an effort to make the web administration look a bit more like the Aurora theme:

Apologies if that break the layout for someone feeding off my site. I've a few bugs to iron out, but will probably submit the patch sometime next week if people are interested. Otherwise, it will just live in my .debs :)

I changed over much of my packaging stuff over the last few hours, so that instead of building directly out of SVN, I'm building release tarballs. This has a number of advantages - the main one being that I can publish the source and source packages for my Debian stuff, so the files on my site are basically the latest available. However, this turned out to be harder then I figured.

I've pushed patches to fix `make dist' before, but to be honest they only ever ensured that `make dist' produced something that compiled - I figured if it compiled, there was an extremely good chance it was working. Well, apparently not - modweb, amongst other things, was completely broken and segfaulting all over the place, which is a bug in it's own right.

It basically seems large numbers of files, mostly for the templates, weren't being included in the distribution tarball. I've pushed a patch to -dev to fix some of this, we'll see if it's actually right or not. In the meantime, you can grab source .tar.gzs from me which actually work.