© 2002-2004 by Remko Tronçon

• Version 0.3.1 released. Just a tiny bugfix release. But i thought i might as well make it into a release, given my huge inter-release time ;)
• Version 0.3 released. Finally! And on my birthday no less! See the Changelog and Release Notes for more information. (21/1/2004)
• Spit is not dead yet. I admit i didn't put much time in it lately, and that by now i should be 4 releases further than i am now. But, i'll use the same excuse everybody uses: i unfortunately have other projects that keep me busy.
  However, i'm currently working on changing the way Spit generates HTML code. If all goes well, the next release should be very easy to extend with your own HTML templates. But more on that later! (13/1/2004)
• Spit has appeared in ASCII Linux Magazine. ! (28/11/2002)
• Version 0.2 released. Bring it on! (09/10/2002)
• Version 0.1 released. And there was much rejoicing ... (31/7/2002)

Spit is a graphical picture indexing tool. It can be used to manage pictures, and generate HTML pages for putting your pictures online. It is designed for user-friendliness, portability and extensibility. It allows quick & easy ordering, editing and adding captions for pictures.

The HTML pages are generated using XSL transformations, which makes it extremely easy to create your own templates. On the next pictures, you can see some examples of pages generated with Spit:

Generated with the default template, Speek.	Generated with a slightly modified version of the Speek template for better integration with an existing website. (Andrew Wils)

Spit uses Qt, a cross platform library for creating user interfaces. It has been compiled and run succesfully under GNU/Linux (and other Unix systems), MacOS and Microsoft Windows. If you want proof, here it is:

Spit running under KDE3 using Liquid	Bare-bones Spit under FVWM	Spit under MacOS X	Spit under Microsoft Windows 2000

You can always contact me for bug reports & feature requests.

More information can be found on the SourceForge project page.

Spit is released under the GNU General Public License (with an additional exception for non-commercial Qt versions), which basically means you can download and use it for free. Mind you that Spit is still in an early development stage, and there are still probably too much bugs and too less features in it, but this will hopefully change in the near future.

Latest release

• ChangeLog
• Sources: spit-0.3.1.tar.gz
• Debian GNU/Linux (Sid) packages:
  • i386: spit_0.3.1-1_i386.deb
  • You can add the following lines to your sources.list to be able to apt-get the packages:
    

    deb http://el-tramo.be/debian ./
    deb http://pieter.barrezeele.be/home-made/debs/spit/ ./

  • You can find the latest packaging files in the spit/debian/ dir from the CVS repository.
• Red Hat packages: (thanks to Dries Verachtert)
  • Source: spit-0.3-1.src.rpm
  • Fedora Core 1 i386: spit-0.3-1.rhfc1.i386.rpm
  • Red Hat 9.0: spit-0.3-1.rh90.i386.rpm
  • You can get the latest spit.spec packaging file from the CVS repository.
• MacOS X 10.3: spit-0.3.dmg (thanks to Andrew Wils for helping me on this one)
• Windows: Due to the fact that the Qt library has only been released under evaluation license for Windows, i can't provide precompiled binaries for this platform. You will have to compile Spit yourself if you want to use it there (and even then you will only be able to use it for 31 days). See the INSTALL file bundled with the source package for instructions on how to compile & run Spit under Windows.
  

Development version

Here is the roadmap for Spit:

• 0.4:
  • Have a 'Preferences' dialog, where the user can place all its preferences
  • Better libxslt error messages
  • Move general options such as 'editor' out of .ind files
  • Automatic upgrading of old .ind files
  • Some cleanup & finishing
• 0.5:
  • EXIF support
• 0.6:
  • Support command-line operations (that don't need a display)
• 0.7:
  • Allow plugins for other HTML generators
• ...
• 1.0:
  • Have decent help, tooltips, ...
  • Create XML Schema for config file
  • Make translations
  • Allow language selection in a dialog
  • Fool-proofness
  • Heavy testing
• Undetermined:
  • Support remote repositories, and allow to update the remote repositories incrementally
  • Add GPhoto import function

Maintained by Remko Tronçon Last Modified: 10/01/2006