28th
EventBox - Multiple Accounts Update
I’d like to say a few words about how work has been going recently.
Multiple Accounts
As you may know, I’ve been solidly working on getting multiple accounts into EventBox (it should have been there from day one but we made a mistake, retrospectively). Supporting multiple accounts in EventBox requires a lot of work due to the internal structural changes. I just got the new architecture sort-of running and here are the results as a screencast.
It’s not very apparent that almost everything else doesn’t work at the moment. Think of it like this - you’ve been building your house for a very long time but suddenly you realize that your foundations are not going to last you any more. So you take them all out and start replacing every single bit. That’s what I’m currently doing.
More Than That
The build which will contain multiple accounts isn’t just about multiple accounts. It’s actually much more than that - it’s a complete rewrite of our foundations. We will have a much faster core and it’s going to be a lot easier to extend it in the future. I’ll be documenting all the positive and negative side-effects of this in the following weeks. Regarding time frames, I can’t really say anything - it’s at the very least a few weeks off. Thanks for your patience, I’ll be doing my best to keep you up to date with what’s happening behind the scenes.
