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Another year in GSoC and Fractal(-next)

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This year I applied for Google Summer of Code again and chose Fractal to work on multi-account support. I got accepted (that’s why I’m writing this), so today I start the coding (and design) period to achieve that.

Fractal: GSoC final report

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The GSoC is coming to an end and so the work planned for this event for all students. And I’m one of those students.

Refactoring Fractal: Remove Backend (II)

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So the time came for removing the Backend struct finally! The bits that were left in the previous patch have been removed, which were not just state but a ThreadPool and a cache for some info. Those were fitted in AppOp without too much thought on consistency of it.

Refactoring Fractal: Remove Backend (I)

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After a week and a half of starting work on Fractal in the GSoC and figuring things out, I could remove all state from one half of the backend, or what is called in Fractal as Backend.