Sylvestre's blog

A couple weeks ago, I have been interviewed by the news site "Free Libre open source software for science and engineering" about Scilab and my work in Scilab Enterprises. I am happy to share it:… suite »

Released a few days ago, I am happy to announce that LLVM and clang 3.1 are already available in the Debian archive in Unstable. RC versions were already available for the last few weeks in Debian experimental. They are very likely to be part of wheezy.… suite »

From February 17 to 19th 2012, between 10 to 30 hackers met at IRILL's offices to squash as many bugs as possible for the Wheezy release. Besides about 42 pizzas, more than one hundred bugs (104 to be precise) have been fixed. Among them, 18 of them… suite »

Back in October 2011, I blogged about the removal of the sun-java6 package from the Debian archive. Even if Openjdk 7 is just great, some corporations still need to use the non-free sun-java6 packages. For perform this task, Cédric Pineau and I brought… suite »

Recently, I have been working on a side project for Debian. The goal was to rebuild of the Debian archive (the distribution) with clang, a new C/C++ compiler. clang is now ready to build software for production (either for C, C++ or Objective-C). This… more »