Minutes April 13th

[ellie timoney]

> We plan to switch to compiling with --std=c99 and targetting all new code
> work to c99 best practices.  First we need to make sure existing code
> compiles with c99.

I came in on the tail end of this part of the conversation.

Yesterday afternoon I spent about half an hour doing a first pass
towards getting it compiling with -std=c99 (it didn't end up being a
trivial set of changes so I backed it out without even a local commit)

Things that become interesting with a strict -std=c99 compile are common
things like strdup() not being strictly part of c99, but rather POSIX or
BSD things (so you need a #define __USE_BSD or whatever somewhere
appropriate).   strcasecmp and strncasecmp (both of which we use quite a
bit) need to be included from strings.h rather than string.h (the latter
usually automagically includes the former, but not in strict c99 mode).

Targetting -std=gnu99 was easier, from memory I only had to add
strings.h to the files using str[n]casecmp to get it building


On Tue, Apr 14, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> Present: Bron, Jeroen, Ken, Matt, Simon, Ellie
> 
> Anthony has resigned from the Cyrus Foundation due to personality
> conflicts and cultural mismatch with the team.  I have reverted the
> commits that happened during the week that I was was away, and then
> cherry-picked the ones that I was satisfied were stable or easily
> fixable.
> 
> We still plan to go ahead with simplifying the configure script - but
> we'll do it as small, testable changes and make sure they keep working
> with our target plaforms and don't block everyone else's workflow.
> 
> We plan to switch to compiling with --std=c99 and targetting all new code
> work to c99 best practices.  First we need to make sure existing code
> compiles with c99.
> 
> Ken: has a bunch of commits almost ready to go, but just needed to track
> down one more bug first.
> 
> Matt: has been away for a month, moving and had a good holiday.  Welcome
> back.  Is going to work on cleaning up lib/ - working with Jeroen to make
> sure it all works with the configure changes.
> 
> Ken: libical - almost everything currently used by Cyrus in is libical
> git.  There's a bug on nonsense recrurrence startdate which causes it to
> spin forever - needs to be fixed.
> 
> Ellie: new sync code on master.  Will back it out from 2.5 for 2.5.1
> release - probably tomorrow.
> 
> Bron: got it compiling with clang.  Bugfixes for some issues at FastMail.
>  Master is on FastMail testing now, with Ellie's changes.  Worked
> together to make sync backwards compatible back to 2.4.  Planning to ship
> master code to FM production tomorrow if issues with dav database can be
> tracked down.
> 
> We have a potential new programmer who applied to FastMail at just the
> right time, and is interested in working on Cyrus.  He's a programming
> student in France.  Bron and Pierre to Skype interview during the week. 
> Hoping to meet in person while Bron is in Europe in early May.
> 
> Cyrus talk at openSUSE/Kolab summit: need to prepare Abstract and Bio -
> Hans is on my case!
> 
> Due to the daylight savings changes squashing Europe closer to Australia,
> the UTC 2200 time doesn't work so well any more, so the next meeting will
> be pushed later on Thursday:  2015-04-16T11:00:00Z.
> 
> Bron.
> 
> 
> -- 
>   Bron Gondwana
>   brong at fastmail.fm