IRC log for #brlcad on 20080922

00:00.09 docelic hey folks, I'm looking at the tire tutorial, and it uses "1 tire" in mged, but I get invalid command name "1".. what's the catch?
00:02.00 docelic actually I see that's "l", but still it looks like I have to load the .g file first?
00:43.34 starseeker yes
00:43.47 starseeker you must load the .g - it's the database with the tire in it
00:44.33 starseeker If you're new to BRL-CAD you might want to spend some time with the VolII book before hitting the tire tool - it makes some assumptions about knowledge of BRL-CAD
00:55.50 brlcad notes that docelic left..
00:56.18 brlcad he's not new to the channel, but undoubtedly a newbie to mged
00:56.38 starseeker ah, shoot
00:56.46 starseeker needs to check people leaving...
00:57.46 starseeker brlcad: Does the docbook->man stuff look reasonable to proceed with?
00:59.00 brlcad starseeker: the stuff I've seen to date looks good
00:59.09 brlcad lots of repairs, I noticed
00:59.32 brlcad looks like about 2-4% had a problem
00:59.50 starseeker Heh
01:00.02 starseeker Little tweaks for the most part, nothing spectacular
01:00.33 starseeker The docbook will need to be hand fixed in most cases, and that means things like multiple command names can also be delt with
01:00.47 brlcad how does it look if you take it back to man?
01:00.54 starseeker pretty good
01:01.14 starseeker i.e. - about the same
01:01.25 starseeker headers are a bit different - more "standard" I suppose
01:01.37 starseeker include things like date created
01:03.33 starseeker also, xsltproc fusses if it doesn't have an author entry, so for the ones without it I'm just putting "BRL-CAD Team"
01:06.46 starseeker will break out the license comment section into its own file to avoid duplication
01:07.10 brlcad yeah, that's actually where it would be good to start collecting real authorship information for programs
01:07.31 brlcad listing everyone that has worked on the various programs, sort out a mechanism for level of contributions
01:07.39 brlcad similar to the authors file, but per application
01:08.09 starseeker nods. Yes, that's a good idea
01:08.35 starseeker better to wait until after the technical side is up and running though - that's a potential mine field
01:09.11 brlcad it's a lot of svn searching
01:11.14 starseeker True
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01:14.56 starseeker hmm, actually makes very little sense to xinclude a commented section.
02:32.25 yukonbob o.O
02:32.36 yukonbob spies "xinclude"...
02:34.00 louipc aww I can create a truncated right cone but not a true full right cone
02:54.59 starseeker yukonbob: Yes, we're using it in the Docbook work
03:20.22 yukonbob starseeker: I was trying to use it in some work, and it was choking -- I _think_ I traced the problem via google, but I don't even remember off top of head what the issue was... It looked like it required some extra work outside of the .xml file itself, though...
03:20.40 yukonbob starseeker: is the work commited (ie: if I update my checkout, I'll see it?)
03:20.46 starseeker hmm. I've had pretty good success with it so far.
03:20.59 starseeker yep - look in doc/docbook
03:21.16 starseeker it's not integrated into the build system just yet except for a couple test files
03:21.38 yukonbob starseeker: so are you just manually running a toolchain?
03:21.56 starseeker I have been up til now
03:22.10 yukonbob has been using xsltproc (DocBook -> html)
03:22.11 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r32722 10/brlcad/trunk/ (3 files in 2 dirs): Put docbook version of search command in, and remove old man page version. Already formats much better, and is serving as a good test case for template development.
03:22.30 yukonbob updates his copy of tree...
03:22.38 starseeker If you have xsltproc, you should be able to make the examples in doc/docbook/system/mnan1 now
03:22.42 starseeker er man1 rather
03:22.59 yukonbob is xsltproc what you've been using too?
03:23.04 starseeker yep
03:24.14 starseeker The man pages generated by this process are almost certainly too much for awf, but in this day and age the only platform that doesn't have man on it that anybody uses is Windows, and even awf doesn't help there
03:25.01 starseeker This process will get us html and (eventually) pdf versions of everything for free, and will even allow the same sources to be integrated both into Volume II's appendix and the man page process
03:25.19 yukonbob indeed
03:25.36 starseeker is tense - afahk no one else has yet tried this
03:30.26 yukonbob wouldn't be worried -- docbook is built to be maleable that way.
03:34.24 starseeker I mean building it
03:34.41 starseeker is a tad new to autoconf hackery
03:38.52 yukonbob starseeker: perhaps tap into the cmake work that's going on...
03:38.54 yukonbob ?
03:40.00 yukonbob is _NOT_ a cmake expert (or even a novice), but has the book, and intends to learn it. I it's promise is very interesting
03:40.08 yukonbob *I think it's ...
03:41.17 starseeker is supposed to be able to work with BRL-CAD as it stands ;-)
03:42.11 yukonbob well "as it stands" seems to me to be a moving target ;)
03:42.30 yukonbob ...but you're the implementor and more "in the loop", if there's in fact a loop to be in ;)
03:42.40 yukonbob heads out on Quest for Food
03:45.32 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r32723 10/brlcad/trunk/doc/docbook/system/man1/search.xml: Add dashes to primitives. Also include author section so xsltproc will be quiet.
03:55.16 starseeker grins evilly
03:55.20 starseeker http://bzflag.bz/~starseeker/search.html
03:55.36 starseeker and http://bzflag.bz/~starseeker/search_man.png
04:03.28 yukonbob nice tables in that man page
04:09.59 starseeker :-)
04:10.05 starseeker thanks
04:10.43 starseeker looks like I need to add some html specific table logic to get them to look better there
04:10.51 starseeker will do that tomorrow...
04:11.07 starseeker were you able to build them?
04:30.53 yukonbob didn't try yet...
04:31.33 yukonbob heads to doc/docbook/system/man1
04:35.00 yukonbob may see what his issue was...
04:53.02 brlcad louipc: what do you mean? what is a "true full" one?
04:56.12 brlcad starseeker: that man page looks outstanding, nice
05:01.42 starseeker yukonbob: If you want to look at xinclude stuff, try the VolumeII.xml file in doc/docbook/book/tutorial_series - I'm not using it in the man pages as yet
05:01.47 starseeker brlcad: thanks!
05:07.22 yukonbob waves to brlcad, gets ready to sign-off for evening...
05:13.08 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r32724 10/brlcad/trunk/TODO:
05:13.08 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: unable to reproduce the text flood hang when running rtarea on 'slow' machines.
05:13.08 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: probably just a case of not trying a machine that's actually slow enough, but we
05:13.08 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: did try several configurations and enough has changed so it was maybe
05:13.08 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: inadvertently fixed anyways.
09:00.40 louipc brlcad: ending with a point instead of ending with a circle. I made the second radius .00001 heh
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09:05.39 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03d_rossberg * r32725 10/brlcad/trunk/misc/win32-msvc/Dll/BrlcadCore.def: added bu_vls_gets
09:05.40 Ralith so, not a point, just a very very small circle.
12:15.43 starseeker Of course, in the real physical world you never have an infinitely sharp point
12:16.07 starseeker even an atomicly pointed cone isn't the same as a true mathematical non-truncated cone ;-)
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13:01.47 brlcad louipc: that's actually intentional since physically there is no "infinitely thin" tipped point
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13:24.34 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r32727 10/brlcad/trunk/TODO: the c++ engine is in the rt^3 module and john implemented tess for the dsp
13:24.49 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r32726 10/brlcad/trunk/TODO: vararg.h was eliminated along with the old cray code
13:25.17 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r32728 10/brlcad/trunk/TODO: cliff fixed the 'Create Solid' reference in volII already as part of the docbook conversion
13:25.18 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r32729 10/brlcad/trunk/TODO: cliff implemented a find command for mged (woot)
14:44.13 brlcad debates finally hitting up rtarea once again
14:45.21 yukonbob waves in: Hello, cadheads
14:45.30 brlcad howdy yukonbob
14:45.45 yukonbob what's shaking, brlcad?
14:47.23 brlcad my belly
14:47.31 brlcad not enough gym time lately :(
14:48.23 prasad_1 <nelson>ha ha</nelson>
14:48.24 prasad_1 ;)
14:49.50 brlcad yeah, it's pretty bad .. eating way too much, rotator cuff is inflamed something aweful, cardio capacity is *way* down
14:51.06 prasad_1 i went last night
14:51.10 prasad_1 after 6 mos
14:51.11 prasad_1 :o
14:51.14 prasad_1 hurtin
14:51.19 yukonbob :P
14:51.46 yukonbob went for big run/hike for first time in long time other week too... actually felt really good (at the end)
14:52.22 yukonbob will hopefully get into habbit of hitting bicycle again....
14:53.39 *** part/#brlcad prasad_1 (n=psilva@static-70-108-244-218.res.east.verizon.net)
15:00.21 brlcad begins the rtarea rewrite
15:01.51 yukonbob brlcad: good luck!
15:02.15 brlcad this will make the third or fourth rewrite
15:02.30 brlcad it's so frequently used, though, deserves some attention/improvements
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15:29.45 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r32730 10/brlcad/trunk/src/librt/mirror.c: remove dead mirror code
15:33.01 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r32731 10/brlcad/trunk/src/librt/mirror.c: remove authorship

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