http://www.stefanoforenza.com Stefano Forenza - Personal Blog Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:46:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Along with the last LTS release of Ubuntu, Lucid Lynx, there have been a few requests to bring back Rapache and make it work on the newer Ubuntu releases. (what's Rapache ? Here's all the posts about it) Will it happen ? Probably not. Here's why. A bit of history Rapache has been ... http://www.stefanoforenza.com/rapache-on-ubuntu-10-04-not-likely/ Just a notice to announce that Rapache Early Eagle just got into Intrepid Ibex's Universe repository. Feel encouraged to give it a spin :). http://www.stefanoforenza.com/eagle-resting-on-ibexs-shoulder/ The Rapache development team is happy to announce the immediate availability of latest Rapache beta release on the Rapache PPA. Please see this post for more infos on the new features. To add the PPA insert the following lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rapache-devel/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/rapache-devel/ubuntu hardy main Then issue the following commands: sudo ... http://www.stefanoforenza.com/rapache-ppa-updated-to-the-last-beta/ It's been a while since I blogged about Rapache. Hell, I didn't even mentioned that Rapache 0.6 made it in Intrepid repositories and in Hardy backports! I am happy to say 0.7 release is coming soon. The codename for this release is early eagle, but don't fear it's unlikely we will ... http://www.stefanoforenza.com/early-eagle-taking-off/ Writing a parser for Apache configuration files presented many interesting challenges. Along with the third rewrite of the parser (which shouldn't considered 'stable' yet, anyway) we tried to fullfill our need of having a more powerful API and managed to make the new API quite pythonic. I thought I'll just post ... http://www.stefanoforenza.com/a-new-parser-for-rapache/ Working on Rapache, it's been a while I wanted to add syntax highlightining, but I didn't dare too loose time on a "side feature" like that. Last night though, Jason came in chat, and pasted me the code to do that straight away. That was nice, I only needed to ... http://www.stefanoforenza.com/syntax-highlightining-in-python/ It's been a while from the last post about Rapache. So I thought time has come to make our last progresses public. For those who doesn't know Rapache is a GTK utility that tries to ease the configuration of Apache on Debian alike systems. This night was a long night :). It's ... http://www.stefanoforenza.com/rapache-by-night/ It's been 2 busy days. I didn't really expected to receive any response on my previous post about Rapache and that was cool. Some of the received suggestion have been  already implemented, so, if you're still interested in Rapache, pull it from stage0 branch and check it out. Shhht! Don't tell ... http://www.stefanoforenza.com/hitting-the-duck/ For those who missed the announce on Ubuntu Planet, a new project - called Rapache - is born. What is Rapache ? Rapache is a simple Apache administration tool. It offers a GTK interface to allow extremely rapid VirtualHost creation and manipulation. Favicons add a nice touch to the list :-) Personally, as a ... http://www.stefanoforenza.com/me-and-rapache/