IRC log for #brlcad on 20071111

02:37.58 *** part/#brlcad rpaddock (n=bob_padd@c-24-131-109-50.hsd1.pa.comcast.net)
07:17.46 *** join/#brlcad yukonbob (n=yukonbob@198.235.198.234)
07:25.06 *** join/#brlcad Twingy (n=justin@74.92.144.217)
08:34.04 *** join/#brlcad torsmo (n=7bfca754@bz.bzflag.bz)
09:30.59 *** join/#brlcad Z80-Boy (i=clock@77-56-81-240.dclient.hispeed.ch)
10:45.32 *** join/#brlcad elite01 (n=elite01@dslb-088-070-026-253.pools.arcor-ip.net)
11:04.49 *** join/#brlcad rpaddock (n=bob_padd@c-24-131-109-50.hsd1.oh.comcast.net)
12:05.43 *** join/#brlcad Elperion (n=Bary@p54875182.dip.t-dialin.net)
12:21.20 *** join/#brlcad xgmx (n=xgmx@dialup-4.245.82.62.Dial1.StLouis1.Level3.net)
12:25.11 xgmx hi
12:25.13 *** part/#brlcad xgmx (n=xgmx@dialup-4.245.82.62.Dial1.StLouis1.Level3.net)
13:06.36 *** join/#brlcad rpaddock (n=bob_padd@c-24-131-109-50.hsd1.pa.comcast.net)
13:20.56 *** join/#brlcad ertugerata (n=Ertugrul@81.213.72.50)
13:21.09 ertugerata hi ; salut
13:22.44 ertugerata mged error : need Tcl 8.5 ? i have 8.5b2
13:23.40 ertugerata Tcl 8.5 in source brlcd ?
13:32.35 ertugerata Tcl 8.5 in source brlcad ?
13:34.02 ertugerata Itcl_Init error version conflict for package "Tcl": have 8.5b2, need exactly 8.5
13:34.02 ertugerata Tcl_Import error unknown namespace in import pattern "::itcl::*"
14:05.31 brlcad ertugerata: that is one of the errors I'm looking at right now. itcl has directives that make it want a *specific* version of tcl making it really hard to use a system tcl
14:07.02 ertugerata system itcl and system tcl my opts
15:03.57 *** part/#brlcad rpaddock (n=bob_padd@c-24-131-109-50.hsd1.pa.comcast.net)
15:19.19 *** join/#brlcad rpaddock (n=bob_padd@c-24-131-109-50.hsd1.oh.comcast.net)
17:27.43 *** join/#brlcad PrezKennedy (n=Matt@74.86.45.130)
18:48.03 *** join/#brlcad PrezKennedy (i=Matt@74.86.45.130)
18:52.54 *** join/#brlcad SWPadnos (n=Me@emc/developer/SWPadnos) [NETSPLIT VICTIM]
20:04.13 *** join/#brlcad tarzeau (i=gurkan@bee.ethz.ch)
20:22.14 *** join/#brlcad ertugerata (n=Ertugrul@81.213.72.50)
20:22.20 *** join/#brlcad MinuteElectron (n=MinuteEl@silentflame/member/pdpc.base.minuteelectron)
20:22.24 ertugerata hi ; salut
20:22.57 ertugerata brlcad i have mged problems with Tcl and itcl
20:56.23 tarzeau Elapsed installation time: 1 hour, 51 minutes, 3 seconds
21:29.54 *** join/#brlcad cad48 (n=56db33e4@bz.bzflag.bz)
21:37.13 ertugerata brlcad: in source version itcl ?
21:41.26 yukonbob ertugerata: what OS are you using?
21:45.06 ertugerata linux, pardus distro
21:47.54 *** join/#brlcad elite01_ (n=elite01@dslb-088-070-008-160.pools.arcor-ip.net)
21:52.22 yukonbob ?pardus ... /me looks this up...
21:53.39 ertugerata www.pardus.org.tr
21:53.39 yukonbob does PiSi offer itcl?
21:53.55 ertugerata yes
21:53.57 *** join/#brlcad bpoole (n=bpoole@UNIX31.andrew.cmu.edu)
21:54.00 ertugerata in contrib depo
21:54.40 ertugerata i m first packager de itcl
21:57.58 ertugerata yukonbob: distro ?
21:58.45 yukonbob netbsd, but it doesn't matter what distro you use as long as you get your packages to work within the constraints you have --ie: if debian, use dpkg to fix your system up; if redhat, use the RPMs, etc. etc.
22:00.59 yukonbob I'm using tcl/tk 8.4 too, btw -- I'd encourage anybody who's curious enough to try the same -- tcl/tk 8.4.x is the latest non-beta tcl, and is far more widely distributed than 8.5... not to mention that there's much more software built against 8.4 than 8.5, so one may have requirements to have 8.4 on the system anyway...
22:02.55 ``Erik hrm, any issues with using 84?
22:03.06 yukonbob not that I've encountered so far
22:05.36 *** join/#brlcad IriX64 (n=mariodot@bas2-sudbury98-1096601470.dsl.bell.ca)
22:07.32 yukonbob it's _infinately_ better in my situation -- I use tcl/tk for my work, so I've got an interest in having a working, supported tcl/tk, and 8.4.x is the one that qualifies in that regard... I never really even got 8.5 to install the way I wanted on my system anyway... and I want to utilize my package management as much as possible -- 8.4 is supported, as well as many, many extensions... 8.5, not so much. (and installing so much "cruft" under the guise of
22:08.03 yukonbob )
22:09.29 ``Erik heh, 85 is still in 'beta', *shrug*
22:09.41 yukonbob indeed -- and for good reason.
22:09.43 ``Erik I might rework the fbsd package to use tcl84
22:10.08 ``Erik <-- hasn't had issue with tcl85 yet... works dandy both from the src build in BRL-CAD and the port
22:10.38 ``Erik but if I can easily use the itcl, itk, and blt from ports in my port, ... so much better
22:11.12 yukonbob I'd be happy if you did, and glad to help you if required -- I think tcl/tk 8.4 is too valuable to drop support for, and 8.5 too 'beta' and new to be the sole provider of tcl/tk -- I'd hate for development to slowly move to where tcl/tk 8.5 features exclude 8.4, requiring 3rd party patching, or worse, completely shutting 8.4 out of the picture...
22:13.11 yukonbob iirc, the reason for moving to 8.5 was better Mac support, but I'm not sure what that means -- do you know?
22:13.20 yukonbob ``Erik: ^--- directed at you
22:13.20 ``Erik um, yeah
22:13.21 ``Erik uh
22:13.24 ``Erik aqua-tk
22:13.49 ``Erik tk85 has 'native' widget support for mac, tk84 faked it through the X layer iirc
22:13.52 ``Erik so it was... well.. fugly
22:13.58 ``Erik and rquires x11.app running
22:14.52 ``Erik <-- not sure...
22:14.53 ``Erik um
22:15.11 ``Erik brlcad and, u, joevalleywhatever his nick is... tim... those wer ethe two pushing it
22:15.24 ``Erik I sit at mac's, but I do all my WORK on fbsd boxes
22:15.43 yukonbob (using tcl/tk shipped w/ Mac, no less)
22:15.51 ``Erik hum
22:16.00 yukonbob ^--- years ago -- well before 8.5
22:16.47 ``Erik <-- not a tcl/tk guy... has done a tiny bit of eggdrop scripting, looked at some BRL-CAD shit.... that's it
22:16.57 yukonbob tcl 8.4.16 is even still improving Mac support...
22:17.13 ``Erik plop me down with scheme or lisp, ruby, ... smalltalk, ... haskell, ocaml, erlang, ... I'm there, yo
22:17.35 ``Erik even stuff like lua and python, if I have to
22:18.02 yukonbob ``Erik: what scheme is your favourite?
22:19.12 ``Erik um, depends on the task
22:19.16 ``Erik I like gauche for a lot of stuff
22:19.18 yukonbob example?
22:19.33 ``Erik gauche is a heavy hitter for things that deal with the OS
22:19.56 ``Erik but it's gc is kinda weak (uses boehm) and it not the best for heavy crunch (but it's good)
22:20.43 ``Erik chicken and, uh,
22:20.58 ``Erik boehm is a conservative C garbage collector
22:21.14 ``Erik it's not generational, it's not compacting, it's not ... a lot of things
22:21.23 ``Erik java's gc stomps boehm
22:21.46 ``Erik don't waste time with guile unless you have to, um
22:22.30 ``Erik bigloo is another 'native code' scheme that's ok... sisc if you're in a jvm... s48 has a solid following
22:22.59 ``Erik I found that guile was an order of magnitude slower than the 'ok' thchemeth
22:23.19 yukonbob this conversation illustrates the strength and weakness of "scheme" -- because there's no cannonical implementation...
22:23.34 ``Erik is there a canonical implementation of C?
22:23.36 ``Erik or c++?
22:23.56 ``Erik I think that's a strength *shrug* as long as the implementations follow the spec, and the spec is followed by the coder
22:24.04 yukonbob it seems less perverted than scheme to me, but perhaps I haven't dug deep enough...
22:24.33 ``Erik scheme is a bit odd in that it specifically aims for minimalism
22:24.54 yukonbob heh -- s/scheme/r5rs/ some might argue
22:24.58 ``Erik heh
22:25.04 ``Erik r6 is coming p
22:25.12 yukonbob r6 is already ratified
22:25.24 ``Erik the srfi's are good, but not part of the core
22:25.26 yukonbob and chicken, for example have said "fsck that"
22:25.40 ``Erik heh, most impl's don't even do all of r5 :(
22:25.45 ``Erik some "big" ones aren't even r4
22:26.41 yukonbob oh well -- maybe chicken et al will become wicked r5 implementations, and r7 will be more "schemey" so more people are happy...
22:26.47 ``Erik correct tail call elimination and continuations (at the same time!) are tricky
22:35.25 yukonbob heh -- alfa male
22:44.47 IriX64 http://www3.sympatico.ca/mario.dulisse2/havoc5.png :)
22:45.58 yukonbob how many hits you getting IriX64?
22:46.33 IriX64 ?
22:46.37 IriX64 on the site, man its a sympatico server
22:52.01 IriX64 yukonbob, does firefox see it all right?
23:00.51 yukonbob IriX64: /me doesn't look at havoc pictures any more...
23:01.40 IriX64 give me some of yours :)
23:02.09 IriX64 the g files
23:03.16 yukonbob http://www.methodlogic.net/flat/gfx/wheel_cropped.png
23:04.40 IriX64 prettiest wheel iv'e ever seen.
23:04.57 IriX64 do you have the whole bike?
23:05.17 louipc I've gotten weary of desktop screenshots :p
23:05.30 IriX64 heh yea me too
23:05.50 IriX64 the attraction there was brlcad, screw the desktop
23:05.56 louipc I need to start modelling stuff dangit
23:06.05 yukonbob http://www.methodlogic.net/flat/gfx/newhub.png
23:06.12 IriX64 i don't i just use the examples
23:06.16 louipc well, just provide the render, not the desktop
23:07.09 IriX64 ill try and yukonbob you actually work with this don't you, it shows
23:07.46 yukonbob http://www.methodlogic.net/flat/vid/video.flv
23:08.04 yukonbob ^--- POVRay, not BRL-CAD
23:08.55 IriX64 can't open a flv file here sorry
23:09.41 IriX64 what do i need to look at that, POVRay?
23:10.11 louipc it's flash video
23:10.15 louipc mplayer...
23:10.35 IriX64 unix thing? or does it exist for windows?
23:10.51 yukonbob try http://www.methodlogic.net/flat/vid/
23:11.43 IriX64 that i saw
23:11.51 yukonbob ?shows up
23:11.56 IriX64 yes
23:12.47 yukonbob fsck qt is teh p1g
23:13.29 IriX64 ?
23:14.56 louipc sorry
23:15.45 yukonbob indeed.
23:24.25 yukonbob IriX64: re: whole bike -- not yet -- when I started there was a problem w/ rotating pipes in BRL-CAD -- (since resolved, I believe)... however, haven't re-attacked yet...
23:26.42 yukonbob http://www.methodlogic.net/flat/gfx/houseray.png
23:31.04 yukonbob http://www.methodlogic.net/flat/gfx/housecomp.png
23:37.32 IriX64 makes me wish i could draw, but i'm happy just fiddling with stuff
23:37.38 yukonbob My work is no havoc, but at least it's not a havoc.
23:37.47 IriX64 heh yea
23:39.26 yukonbob IriX64: if you can take some graph paper and make a plan, then translate that into the mged commands, you're laughing -- if you can see patterns then get tcl (a language so easy it's almost embarassing) to do them for you, then you get bicycle wheels and precise roofs.
23:40.45 IriX64 i had trouble drawing a sine wave yukonbob :)
23:40.45 yukonbob then you can move to helping starseeker do his Apollo project...
23:41.13 yukonbob IriX64: let the computer do the work for you...
23:41.52 yukonbob gah -- QT is still building -- /me wonders if this is worth the "effort"
23:41.57 IriX64 still need to know what you're doing, i just fiddle, never took much to documentation :)
23:42.08 yukonbob well -- can't help you there...
23:42.20 IriX64 heh ill call if you can :)
23:42.53 *** join/#brlcad docelic (n=docelic@77.237.114.119)
23:43.07 yukonbob The King, Alice in Wonderland: "Start at the beginning, continue to the end, then stop."
23:43.15 IriX64 time to pull another raid on cvs.
23:43.38 IriX64 prefer mucking around with code
23:44.42 yukonbob IriX64: want a task? Try getting your windows box running BRL-CAD with independant installations of tcl/tk 8.4 with supporting libs (blt, itcl, etc).
23:45.22 yukonbob keep notes, and keep me in the loop wrt your progress...
23:45.50 IriX64 my windows box, has a hard enough time compiling the stuff it's *supposed to compile
23:47.11 yukonbob ?so wtf do you keep trying to recompile BRL-CAD (I'm _really_ curious)
23:47.43 IriX64 trying to stay current thats all
23:47.54 yukonbob ...stay current, and then not use it?
23:48.24 yukonbob are you following -current, or 7.10.4?
23:48.30 IriX64 hoping eventually to provide cygwin compiles and all thats needed to run it on a windows box
23:48.35 IriX64 both
23:50.07 yukonbob well, if you want to help a project I've adopted, consider playing w/ tcl/tk 8.4 etc. Get that stuff on your machine, and exclude it from the BRL-CAD build, having the build use the already-installed versions you've got...
23:51.38 IriX64 might try that ive already got tcl/tk8.4.6
23:52.09 IriX64 http://rafb.net/p/hwYhxt94.html <--- the 1's were added by me cause this thing conflicts with libbu
23:52.40 yukonbob nice -- though 8.4.6 is a bit old in the 8.4 series -- 8.4.16 is the latest, released week/two ago...
23:52.54 IriX64 where please?
23:53.59 yukonbob http://tcl.sourceforge.net/
23:59.54 tarzeau i've made debian packages of brlcad
23:59.59 tarzeau (finally, and it even works)

Generated by irclog2html.pl Modified by Tim Riker to work with infobot.