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Hah, well, wouldn't have expected to see this on Hacker News all these years later. This got folded up into GTK+ years back as the GTK Inspector, so we dropped
by chipx86 7y ago
Hah, well, wouldn't have expected to see this on Hacker News all these years later.
This got folded up into GTK+ years back as the GTK Inspector, so we dropped further development on it. They could do more with this being part of GTK+ than we could as a loadable module.
I also don't really work on GTK-based applications anymore, so it didn't make sense to continue development when I no longer had a vested interest in building new features for it. Instead, I build Review Board (https://www.reviewboard.org https://www.reviewboard.org -- code review product) full-time now. Takes about 156% of my time.
The little Parasite bug lives on, though, as the mascot for Splat, a bug tracker we maintain for our needs (and might turn into a product someday). See https://hellosplat.com/tour/ https://hellosplat.com/tour/ for more drawings of the little guy.
- KwanEsq 7y agoAh, reviewboard, I remember using that back when Mozilla used it. I quite liked it, was good for interdiffs. Which reminds me, I filed a security bug years ago against it (using the mentioned Splat), and no one seems to have ever noticed/looked at it. #4614 if you're interested
- chipx86 7y agoAh yes, I remember this. We did see it and looked into it at the time (and I've just gone over it again). It's really a different problem than it seems. Not a security issue, but I can see where it'd look like it. Kind of a terrible quirk with the unreliability of diffs. We discussed it internally, but those discussions never moved to the bug. I'll follow up on there, give you an overview of why you saw the behavior you did and our rationale. Thanks for the poke!
- CameronNemo 7y agoSomeone below recommended linking to the gtk inspector to help inform people landing on the webpage.
- chipx86 7y agoI've updated the website and GitHub to point to GtkInspector as the successor. Hopefully that helps!
- cozzyd 7y agoSPLAT! is also the name of a well-known radio propagation tool (https://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/splat.html https://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/splat.html )