On Monday, March 23, I submitted my second build to TestFlight. Its number is 1.2.3 because I didn’t know how builds are numbered at the time. There are conventions out there, but I think they are used arbitrarily anyway. So all my TestFlight builds will be 1.2.X
Now that I have a stable build on TestFlight that I’m happy with, I’ll wait for tester feedback to come in while I switch gears to my next project. It will be a remake of the project for my senior thesis of my undergrad. I built an instant message client and server in Java, designed to be fully encrypted and as secure as possible.
I decided to use my desktop Ubuntu workstation for this project. Almost exactly one year ago, I installed Bionic Beaver onto my HP p7-1414. I haven’t touched it since then as I have been focusing on my Mancala app. The first thing I tried to do on this Ubuntu machine last year was to build and install GnuPG. I quickly remembered why I really abandoned Ubuntu: installing this software by installing its dependencies one-by-one drove me insane.
So by Thursday I reached out to my friends online for help, and from them I learned that practically no one installs software that way anymore, because digging through the endless chain of dependencies puts you into “Dependency Hell.” One person advised me to get a package manager like Synaptic, which has come in handy. But for my purposes, my friend told me to check that GnuPG isn’t pre-installed on Bionic Beaver before I waste more of my time. Lo and behold, it was.
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