IRC log for #brlcad on 20080419

00:02.39 yukonbob waves in
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01:09.03 DevJock Hello, this is my first time using IRC, please forgive me if I do something stupid.
01:53.17 starseeker_home DevJock: welcome
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02:27.26 DevJock Has anyone considered making the source code available in a .7z instead of a .zip format? The file size is way smaller.
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02:42.37 brlcad hello DevJock
02:43.02 CIA-12 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r30734 10/brlcad/trunk/src/proc-db/tire.c: Rotation looks OK now, but primitives in tread pattern look off - may have sizing wrong.
02:43.07 brlcad DevJock: no, I don't think anyone has ever cared much about the format :)
02:43.20 starseeker_home plays whack-a-bug
02:43.25 brlcad zip is really to appease ignorant windows users that are only familiar with zip
02:44.30 starseeker_home is also glad in retrospect he tried a simple tread pattern before trying a complex (real) pattern
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02:48.33 brlcad hey pacman87
02:48.35 pacman87 hi
03:00.02 starseeker_home brlcad: I'm getting some wireframe behavior I don't quite understand: http://my.bzflag.bz/~starseeker/primitive-oddity.png
03:00.42 starseeker_home brlcad: It's quite possible I have the dimensions wrong, but in that case shouldn't both the wireframe and the raytrace be off?
03:01.45 DevJock Hi brlcad, I'm using Bersirc IRC and it's nice to talk to you guys
03:05.27 brlcad starseeker_home: i'm not sure what I"m looking at in the screenshot
03:05.50 brlcad are those arbs?
03:06.19 brlcad the black would normally be invalid -- looks like something twisted inside out
03:06.51 brlcad otherwise that's a pretty harsh change in normal..
03:07.28 brlcad DevJock: welcome, hope you hang .. irc is more a lifestyle than an activity ;)
03:10.17 starseeker_home yes - arbs
03:10.39 brlcad my first guess would be that they're twisted or inverted
03:10.42 starseeker_home It should be a fairly garden variety arb8
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03:10.43 starseeker_home OK
03:11.10 starseeker_home will re-examine how the arbs are drawn - thanks
03:16.22 brlcad they'll still draw the wireframe if a face is twisted, but the normals and hits will be screwy
03:18.14 yukonbob evening, geeks :)
03:18.57 pacman87 we're not cadheads anymore?
03:20.07 yukonbob evening cadheads
03:20.23 yukonbob how's it going pacman87 :)
03:21.16 yukonbob reviewed links after he found out our own clock was involved w/ the development, but it's page navigation is still t3h sux0rs compared to w3m
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03:38.43 DevJock I was told that some of the developers use an IDE to work on the source code. Could you guys specify one. I was trying to set up a Code::Blocks project to compile the code, but you weren't kidding about a million lines of code, and I have no idea how to get the Java files to compile. I'm a spoiled windows user with 6 years of C++ development experience in a Visual Studio environment. Any help, advice would be appreciated.
03:43.19 CIA-12 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r30735 10/brlcad/trunk/misc/ (. Makefile.am): ignore and clean up after ylwrap
03:45.17 brlcad howdy yukonbob
03:45.37 brlcad DevJock: ah, you are the guy from the forum then
03:46.00 brlcad the java files are technically optional, you can conceivably ignore them
03:49.01 DevJock <brlcad>: yup, that's me from the forum, okay then, I'll ignore the java files for now and just see about getting all the c files into Code::Blocks. Thanks.
03:51.07 brlcad sounds good, look forward to hearing how it goes
03:52.11 brlcad DevJock: there are also MSVC build files if you still prefer windows ;)
03:52.29 brlcad the windows build of brl-cad could also use lots of love
03:56.53 DevJock <brlcad>: Well Code::Blocks is supposed to be a cross platform IDE, so I guess if I could get that to work it really would be useful not just to windows users.
03:58.56 yukonbob looks-up Code::Blocks
04:00.07 CIA-12 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r30736 10/brlcad/trunk/src/other/jove/jove.h: string.h needs to take priority, remove the HAVE_STRINGS_H check
04:14.30 CIA-12 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r30737 10/brlcad/trunk/src/other/jove/jove.h: no longer need common.h with HAVE_STRINGS_H removed
04:16.28 CIA-12 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r30738 10/brlcad/trunk/src/other/jove/jove.h: oops, revert .. we do still need it elsewhere
04:17.58 DevJock Well I was sure was optimistic, I added all the c and h files to my BRL-CAD code project. Attempting to build the code produced alot of errors, the first being "\brlcad-7.12.0\src\adrt\bench\bench.c|28|pthread.h: No such file or directory|". I assume from this wiki article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX_Threads that I will need the pthreads-w32 for windows in order to get rid of this error?
04:19.03 brlcad src/adrt hasn't been ported to work on windows
04:21.10 DevJock <brlcad>: I assume that I can make like the Java files and for now remove this directory from my project?
04:21.23 brlcad should be able to
04:21.51 brlcad src/librtserver src/adrt src/external and probably src/other can/should be ignored/removed
04:23.03 brlcad that's a lot of slashes
04:23.33 DevJock brlcad: Thank you, I will be logging out now and spending a little quality time with this.
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14:49.05 CIA-20 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r30739 10/brlcad/trunk/src/proc-db/Makefile.am: include wdb_deps for the debianeers. for whatever reason, it's still dropping the deps on the cxx target
15:08.52 CIA-20 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r30740 10/brlcad/trunk/src/tab/Makefile.am: eep, make sure script.c isn't a BUILT_SOURCES files if we don't have a lexer
15:09.58 yukonbob morning cadheads
15:33.58 brlcad morning cadtails
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16:04.44 yukonbob heh
16:05.01 yukonbob "cdr"'s?
16:12.40 hippieindamakin8 hey yukonbob
16:12.57 hippieindamakin8 good afternoon
16:16.56 yukonbob morning hippieindamakin8
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16:27.21 hippieindamakin8 are u from canada ?
16:27.32 hippieindamakin8 Alberta ?
16:28.32 yukonbob yes, Canada, but not Alberta
16:28.40 yukonbob ?Why would you guess Albera
16:28.46 yukonbob *Alberta
16:29.13 hippieindamakin8 :P DNS look up says alberta :P
16:29.39 yukonbob paste your lookup to a pastebin
16:29.43 hippieindamakin8 just wanted ur timezone to wish u :)
16:30.44 hippieindamakin8 http://dpaste.com/45813/
16:31.59 hippieindamakin8 shall get back to studies :P
16:32.48 yukonbob I think you looked up the info for the ISP, not me
16:34.10 hippieindamakin8 ya :)
16:34.32 yukonbob my ass in in Yukon Territory, but the computer I'm networked to (and running my IRC client from) is in British Columbia
16:35.14 hippieindamakin8 :))
16:36.32 yukonbob utc -7
16:38.18 hippieindamakin8 utc +5:30 or +4:30 durin light saving
16:38.30 hippieindamakin8 yeah yukonbob are u good at splines ?
16:38.38 hippieindamakin8 i meant the math
16:40.26 yukonbob hippieindamakin8: honestly, I don't know -- I'm not a gfx/cad person when it comes to under-the-hood implementation
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16:42.51 hippieindamakin8 ohh :) was looking for some texts and reference material for the proofs of the spines and Peano's theorem
16:44.21 yukonbob post a question and see what happends, brlcad, ``Erik, and other smart people are monitoring this channel -- maybe repost when you see pacman come back...
16:44.47 yukonbob s/see what happens,/see what happens;/
16:45.09 hippieindamakin8 Prove Peano's theorem
16:45.11 hippieindamakin8 :)
16:45.32 hippieindamakin8 till then i ll give it a try by myself
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17:17.34 andrecastelo good afternoon everyone :D
17:23.33 brlcad howdy andre
17:23.52 brlcad probably quite a long weekend for a lot of folks..
17:29.22 andrecastelo indeed, i'm quite anxious, can't wait for monday.
17:34.48 andrecastelo brlcad: did you look at the code?? :D
17:35.31 andrecastelo (for the patch)
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18:20.00 *** topic/#brlcad is BRL-CAD Open Source Solid Modeling || http://brlcad.org || http://sf.net/projects/brlcad || Channel logs at http://ibot.rikers.org/%23brlcad/ || BRL-CAD is participating in the 2008 Google Summer of Code, see http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code || GSoC student selections will be announced on Monday the 21st
19:01.19 brlcad has a fix for debian working
19:56.27 CIA-20 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r30741 10/brlcad/trunk/m4/patch.m4: (log message trimmed)
19:56.27 CIA-20 BRL-CAD: This should finally (re)fix the Debian and Ubuntu builds. The problem boils down to the Debian devs insisting on modifying default upstream libtool linkage behavior. They
19:56.27 CIA-20 BRL-CAD: do this for performance/relinkage reasons so that rebuilding and installing a base library (like libpng) doesn't necessarily require relinking all callers. They force
19:56.28 CIA-20 BRL-CAD: *off* the addition of dependency libraries on the linker line by setting link_all_deplibs=no which in turn mucks havok with compilation. Their intent seems to assume that
19:56.31 CIA-20 BRL-CAD: all libs are installed before a binary needs to link against them so that recursive linux dynamic link lookups will find everything needed via rpaths alone. So all of the
19:56.34 CIA-20 BRL-CAD: dependencies listed on our (not-yet-installed) libtool archive libraries are stripped off when binaries are linked.
19:56.37 CIA-20 BRL-CAD: This fix reverts the libtool script back to the default "unknown" value for link_all_deplibs. So libtool does properly keep track of the recursive dependency descriptions
19:56.43 brlcad stupid nano
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20:49.05 yukonbob brlcad: "stupid" debian -- is this libtool shenanigan documented? It seems to have taken a while to figure it out...
21:03.13 brlcad yukonbob: actually it didn't take long at all - I just don't use debian, rarely have access to one
21:03.19 brlcad happened to have access to one today
21:03.45 brlcad but yes, there are at least three debian bug reports that relate to it
21:05.11 brlcad alas, there are few big packages that build both libs and bins that utilize LIBADD dependencies
21:13.21 CIA-20 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r30742 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS: Bob added xclone command to mged for xpushed deep copies. scripted implementation, performs xpush then clone.
21:29.01 yukonbob brlcad: bugs like that remind me of the jwz quote: "Browser compatibility problems are nature's way of saying 'stop trying to be so fuckin clever'"
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