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Please focus on bug fixing, and expect big +changes in the next release! + +I'll try to devote all my time to this task; please excuse me if I +procrastinate other subjects... + + + +Jorge.- + + + +Re: [Dillo-dev]Memory Leak + +From: Jorge Arellano Cid <jcid@me...> - 2000-01-07 15:09 + +Luca, +(& everyone) + +> Hi, +> +> I'm testing Dillo and I don't like what I see. I've changed malloc in +> g_malloc, free in g_free and realloc in g_realloc in all the source tree. +> I've recompiled my glib with mem_profile enabled, at the end of main() +> I've added g_mem_profile() just before the return. + +Nice! +Did you just run a script to change them? +(please send it to me) + +> +> Test: +> Run Dillo and then press <CTRL-X> (to close Dillo): +> 143 Kb allocated +> 35 Kb freed +> 108 Kb in use :( +> +> Run Dillo, open http://www.polito.it, open http://www.gzilla.com (here I got +> GLib-WARNING **: freeing previously freed memory :( ), open segfault.org, +> <CTRL-X>: +> 2.8 Mb allocated +> 1.8 Mb freed +> 1 Mb in use :( +> +> Run Dillo, open http://www.polito.it, open Dillo Home Page, open http://www.gzilla.com, +> <CTRL-X> (this time I have't got the GLib warning): +> 1.9 Mb +> 1 Mb +> 0.9 Mb in use +> +> Maybe we'd solve this bug to stabilize Dillo, too. + +Of course. + +Some time ago, Daniel (Roberts) posted a very similar report to gzilla +mailing list (he worked with 'leaky' or similar), the fact that matters is +that Dillo doesn't deallocate the memory it uses before exiting; it leaves +all the cleanning work to the OS. +Specially significative is the DIC (decompressed image cache), wich I'm +extensively working now; It allocates memory for every single image Dillo +loads (uncompressed allocation). +There're also other resources (I remember five lists of allocated stuff) +that don't get deallocated when finishing... + +I think it would be very interesting to write the deallocating functions +(as a_Dicache_free_all for instance), call them before exiting and +make a review of what happens then. + +Personally, I've worked enough those modules, up to be deeply convinced, +that such a test is required. I can even try to write some of those +deallocating functions quickly. + +Actually, I've worked the code a lot, and would like to standarize it to +g_malloc and friends (as you did), integrate your latest patch, write +the deallocating functions, and make a new release to work with. + + +Jorge.- + + + +[Dillo-dev]Memory Leak + +From: Luca Rota <drake@fr...> - 2000-01-06 15:35 + +Hi, + +I'm testing Dillo and I don't like what I see. I've changed malloc in +g_malloc, free in g_free and realloc in g_realloc in all the source tree. +I've recompiled my glib with mem_profile enabled, at the end of main() +I've added g_mem_profile() just before the return. + +Test: +Run Dillo and then press <CTRL-X> (to close Dillo): +143 Kb allocated +35 Kb freed +108 Kb in use :( + +Run Dillo, open http://www.polito.it, open http://www.gzilla.com (here I got +GLib-WARNING **: freeing previously freed memory :( ), open segfault.org, +<CTRL-X>: +2.8 Mb allocated +1.8 Mb freed +1 Mb in use :( + +Run Dillo, open http://www.polito.it, open Dillo Home Page, open http://www.gzilla.com, +<CTRL-X> (this time I have't got the GLib warning): +1.9 Mb +1 Mb +0.9 Mb in use + +Maybe we'd solve this bug to stabilize Dillo, too. + +Ciao, +Luca + + + +Re: [Dillo-dev]New release + +From: Jorge Arellano Cid <jcid@ma...> - 2000-01-05 23:45 + +Sammy, + + +> What is the library for the png routines ? i get undefined references +> from png.c :) + +Sorry, it seems I'll have to include a check within the +autoconf stuff... + + +The PNG support requires libpng-1.0.5 or better +(available at http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/) + +... it also requires zlib-1.1.3 or better +(available http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/) + +but if you're running Redhat, you'd better grab the rpms. + + +Jorge.- + + + +Re: [Dillo-dev]New release + +From: <jamesm@gt...> - 2000-01-05 23:21 + +its libpng, and it can be downloaded from ftp.cdrom.com or +metalab.unc.edu, or just about any big ftp site. I also had to add -lz +to the makefile to link with zlib (That's probably your problem). + +-James McCollough + + + +Re: [Dillo-dev]New release + +From: nightstalker <nstalkie@tv...> - 2000-01-05 22:05 + +What is the library for the png routines ? i get undefined references +from png.c :) + +sammy + + + +[Dillo-dev]New release + +From: Jorge Arellano Cid <jcid@ma...> - 2000-01-05 01:02 + +Hi! + + +Finally dillo-0.0.4 is finished, and ready for download. It +includes several changes, bug fixes and improvements; some things +didn't make it into the tarball due to stability concerns, but I +hope to polish them enough to add them in the next release. +Anyway you'll find plenty of changes in the Changelog. + +I hope you enjoy this release. + +Caveat: The background color support is not yet completed and +if you happen to browse a page with BLACK background, you'll not +see the text! -- Luca is currently working on this. + + +Jorge.- + + +Pd: James, tomorrow I'll send you a detailed answer in regard to +the progress bar code; I liked it very much and I think we're a +few touches away from a first class meter! + + + +Re: [Dillo-dev]What's about i18n (internationalization)? + +From: Jorge Arellano Cid <jcid@ma...> - 2000-01-04 14:00 + +Luca, +(and everyone!) + +> Hi, +> in this days I've tried to add i18n to Dillo. I'm using gettext package. +> I've added the po/ and intl/ into source tree, modified the configure.in and +> added the necessary code to dillo.c and menu.c thus I've tried to translate +> some menu items in Italian (it works !). +> +> So my question is: Are we interested in i18n? + +Of course it's a desirable feature, but I'd rather prefer we +focus on bug fixing now; I've been deeply digging the sources +these days and I'm somewhat scared on what I've found. + +Please don't get me wrong, I do like those new features, what +I'm trying to do is to finish the stabilization process, and end +up with a rock-solid browser that's easy to understand and to +extend. BTW: when adding the PNG decoding routines, Geoff used a +very similar aproach to what he saw with GIF and JPG. But the +underlying mechanism was broken, so he was not able to know in +advance that it wasn't his code's fault when some images were not +rendering... I've experienced that several times before, and it's +incredibly discouraging to start trying to find were the bug is +(or whether your fault or not), in a very big code base that you +don't know, that's undocumented and sometimes misleadingly +commented... + +I don't want our developers to experience that painful coding +facts, and that's why I prefer to stabilize, clean and fix what +we have now, and after that, to focus on what we'd like to add or +improve. As a matter of fact, I've found several more bugs while +working the code and I'll introduce them into the bug track ASAP. + +Please don't be deceived by a pretty face, Dillo _IS_ very +BUGGED now, we haven't reached the safe extensibilty milestone +yet. You have been warned... + + +------ + +Luca: +In regard to 'text', 'link', 'vlink' and 'alink', they are +highly required now (cause bgcolor will be included in the next +release). Please make a feature-fault entry at the bug-track and +keep up the good job! + + +sincerely +Jorge.- + + +Pd: I'll try to release dillo-0.0.4 today. + + + +[Dillo-dev]What's about i18n (internationalization)? + +From: Luca Rota <drake@fr...> - 2000-01-03 14:50 + +Hi, +in this days I've tried to add i18n to Dillo. I'm using gettext package. +I've added the po/ and intl/ into source tree, modified the configure.in and +added the necessary code to dillo.c and menu.c thus I've tried to translate +some menu items in Italian (it works !). + +So my question is: Are we interested in i18n? + +Ciao, +Luca + + + +[Dillo-dev]Site is UP!!! + +From: Jorge Arellano Cid <jcid@ma...> - 2000-01-02 00:59 + +Hi everyone! +2000 year greetings to you! + +Quick Good News: + +- Our site is working again!!! +(Go & check it please :) + +- Internet is working OK (No big Y2K problems here) + +- dillo-0.0.4 will be great! + + + +Jorge.- + + |