IRC log for #brlcad on 20080127

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07:51.49 CIA-31 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r30094 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS: erik upgraded the bundled tcl/tk from 8.5a1 to 8.5 final now that the tcl/tk folks have finally released the blessed update
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21:34.48 yukonbob hello, cadheads
22:41.11 brlcad howdy bob
23:00.54 yukonbob is this for .g files?
23:01.54 brlcad yeah
23:02.41 louipc http://www.theonion.com/content/video/
23:02.43 brlcad the command already exists, but it's rather limited, picky, and uninformative .. likely to surprise the user in some cases
23:02.51 yukonbob can distribute libraries of objects and shoot them to/from other libs/projects?
23:03.11 brlcad now you can specify arbitrary prefix/suffix or let it auto-increment a prefix/suffix and it does the right thing
23:03.38 brlcad and lets you know when there was a name collision if there was one
23:04.17 brlcad yukonbob: erm, that's not exactly what dbconcat does, but there is another command in the package that does do that
23:04.20 yukonbob hrmm -- /me has no sign of dbconcat in his 7.10.4 distrib.
23:04.25 brlcad or is at least an example for doing that :)
23:04.29 brlcad it's an mged command
23:04.46 yukonbob mged ftw!
23:04.49 brlcad if you run file->import or dbconcat on the mged prompt
23:04.56 yukonbob ah...
23:06.26 yukonbob brlcad: what's the sched. for next release?
23:07.16 brlcad early feb if the remining TODO items get resolved this week
23:07.47 yukonbob rock'n [fscking] roll!!
23:07.50 yukonbob :)
23:07.57 yukonbob is the TODO posted?
23:08.12 brlcad it's in the sources
23:08.19 brlcad always in the sources ;)
23:08.26 yukonbob UTSL ;)
23:08.44 brlcad https://brlcad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/brlcad/brlcad/trunk/TODO
23:09.03 yukonbob speaking of co
23:09.12 yukonbob are you pretty happy w/ svn now?
23:09.17 brlcad quite
23:09.36 yukonbob good -- is ready for primetime production use now?
23:12.16 brlcad svn?
23:13.06 brlcad yeah, they've been pretty stable ever since sourceforge enabled them as an option for projects .. there were a flurry of related fixes that came after that, but then it's been pretty solid ever since
23:13.19 brlcad and that was more than a year ago
23:14.56 yukonbob oh no -- I mean specifically w/ this repo -- ie: there was initial problem w/ mime-types (that one obviously solved) -- otherwise this specific BRL-CAD repo is good?
23:15.27 brlcad ahh, yeah, I've not encountered any more issues
23:15.41 yukonbob ~brlcad ++
23:16.00 yukonbob ^-- even though apparently doesn't count ;)
23:16.06 brlcad the biggest mimetype problem was just when it caused tcl files to come in as binary
23:16.12 yukonbob right
23:16.37 brlcad script mime types still had to be fixed because of the way they changed the handlng of the auto-props file, but it was a minor issue
23:16.48 yukonbob did you just add a .tcl type? (ie: .sh would be handled similarly to what .tcl needs, right?)
23:16.59 brlcad there already was a tcl type
23:17.28 brlcad svn really likes to have mime-types, so the cvs2svn conversion tool gives you several options for trying to auto-set the mime-types
23:17.35 brlcad which most of the time works great
23:17.55 brlcad mpg files are properly marked as movies, for example, text files as text files, etc
23:18.27 brlcad one of the import options was to provide a standard mime.types file (included in just about every apache install)
23:18.55 brlcad alas, apache's *default* mime type handler for tcl files is application/x-tcl .. which rightly looks binary to svn
23:19.41 brlcad so cvs2svn set that type on the files, which made every revision a binary file .. which is fine content-wise, except it won't let you see a binary diff
23:20.08 brlcad so reimported without apache's help, using my own auto-props file (which is svn's way to specify types and other attributes)
23:20.29 brlcad actually just dropped the mime.types file altogether just in case there were others
23:20.41 brlcad and provided by own auto-props that just had exactly what I wanted
23:21.29 brlcad then the only problem was that the cvs2svn authors changed the way that file behaves, making it do something that svn doesn't do .. but that was the binary exec bit issue that was trivial to fix
23:21.48 brlcad just means if someone checks out an old revision, they'll have to run sh autogen.sh instead of ./autogen.sh
23:22.39 yukonbob ah... /me has never had to deal w/ a repo (of cvs, svn, or anything) at this level (ie: setting up a project)... I'm usually a co/update user ;)
23:25.06 brlcad :)
23:25.54 yukonbob chat later... enjoy the rest of your sunday :)
23:54.12 CIA-31 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r30095 10/brlcad/trunk/BUGS: john anderson already/recently fixed the dbconcat of empty combinations bug, just tested and verified here that it's indeed working well now

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