Comments on: Blogging Software http://www.paulmellors.net/2009/03/blogging-software#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Paul Mellors's Blog / Tech News Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:09:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Livio http://www.paulmellors.net/2009/03/blogging-software/comment-page-1#comment-736 Livio Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:03:09 +0000 http://www.paulmellors.net/?p=243#comment-736 It's old and unmaintained :/ . It’s old and unmaintained :/ .

]]> By: Paul W. Frields http://www.paulmellors.net/2009/03/blogging-software/comment-page-1#comment-735 Paul W. Frields Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:48:55 +0000 http://www.paulmellors.net/?p=243#comment-735 Unfortunately, Drivel is a dead upstream. The author hasn't responded to any requests for changes or patches in well over a year now, and the sources in SVN haven't been touched in almost twice as long: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/drivel/trunk/ I was the maintainer for this software in Fedora and I finally killed it off in Rawhide about a month ago, meaning it will no longer appear in Fedora 11. It has a number of bugs logged against it which will never be fixed upstream, and since we generally don't carry old, busted software in Fedora it was time for it to go. There are some other GTK-based blogging aids available like gnome-blog and blogtk, but in general I've found you can get the same results from using the standard Text Editor (or your $EDITOR of choice), and using the superb web interface now available in WordPress. Drivel has no support for tagging, multiple categories, or any of the many other enjoyable and useful features in modern blogging platforms. Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings. :-( I know it's painful to let go software you like -- I maintained Drivel because I used it for a couple years myself. But there's plenty of other great software out there and I encourage you to look for something you love -- or maybe you'd like to fork Drivel and start a project of your own? Unfortunately, Drivel is a dead upstream. The author hasn’t responded to any requests for changes or patches in well over a year now, and the sources in SVN haven’t been touched in almost twice as long:

http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/drivel/trunk/

I was the maintainer for this software in Fedora and I finally killed it off in Rawhide about a month ago, meaning it will no longer appear in Fedora 11. It has a number of bugs logged against it which will never be fixed upstream, and since we generally don’t carry old, busted software in Fedora it was time for it to go.

There are some other GTK-based blogging aids available like gnome-blog and blogtk, but in general I’ve found you can get the same results from using the standard Text Editor (or your $EDITOR of choice), and using the superb web interface now available in WordPress. Drivel has no support for tagging, multiple categories, or any of the many other enjoyable and useful features in modern blogging platforms.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings. :-( I know it’s painful to let go software you like — I maintained Drivel because I used it for a couple years myself. But there’s plenty of other great software out there and I encourage you to look for something you love — or maybe you’d like to fork Drivel and start a project of your own?

]]> By: red http://www.paulmellors.net/2009/03/blogging-software/comment-page-1#comment-734 red Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:21:35 +0000 http://www.paulmellors.net/?p=243#comment-734 I prefer BloGTK (#2 is drivel, #3 QTM). BloGTK is available in the Fedora Repo too...and QTM has a yum repo for Fedora available through the OpenSUSE build service (Google for QTM and follow some links and you'll get the repo file). I prefer BloGTK (#2 is drivel, #3 QTM). BloGTK is available in the Fedora Repo too…and QTM has a yum repo for Fedora available through the OpenSUSE build service (Google for QTM and follow some links and you’ll get the repo file).

]]> By: AndyB http://www.paulmellors.net/2009/03/blogging-software/comment-page-1#comment-732 AndyB Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:44:23 +0000 http://www.paulmellors.net/?p=243#comment-732 Shame that it's not available in the standard SuSE repositories. It's a PITA installing from source. Shame that it’s not available in the standard SuSE repositories. It’s a PITA installing from source.

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