Extension Progress

Last Thursday I met with my team and we discussed plans to get our extension repo branch compiled and running with Banshee. I already had the branch set up and running on my machine, so I assisted my team mates in getting the branch set up in MonoDevelop and in the Banshee software itself. All of my team mates ran into the same problem when trying to run the ./autogen.sh script under the Banshee-Community-Extensions branch. They all kept getting an error message stating that the package Banshee-1-thickclient could not be found. When I saw this message, it confused me because I did not experience this problem when I set up my branch. After trying to see if the package existed at all under Ubuntu's Synaptic Package Manager and online, I realized that my team mates were running the latest version of Banshee (1.9.5) and I was running version 1.9.4. I figured this had to be the problem, because that was the only difference in configurations that separated me from my team mates. We found out that my hunch was right. Brandon, my team mate, emailed the Banshee mailing list to try and find a solution to the team's dilemma. After getting a few threads back, we found out that it was a matter of versions. Since the update from 1.9.4 to 1.9.5, the community extension branch was not updated either. In the 1.9.5 version, the developers implemented the change our team did from Banshee-1 to Banshee. As a result of this change, the community extensions branch was not updated and thus was still searching for Banshee-1 instances when trying to compile. The developers of Banshee gave us some git repo commands to follow in order to resolve this problem and so the rest of my team mates will try their recommendations. When I update to 1.9.5, I too will follow the directions given by the developers.

Once everyone has the community extension branch up and running, we will then head to our next step of figuring out how to extract track information to place inside a Gwibber post. I believe this will be a bit of a tricky process because there seems to be no clear cut way to preload text into a Gwibber post box.