IRC log for #brlcad on 20110503

02:30.15 *** join/#brlcad crazy_imp (~mj@a89-183-78-204.net-htp.de)
03:51.09 kanzure hrmm
03:51.19 kanzure i'm currently the maintainer of an 'old' codebase from 2004-2009 called nanoengineer
03:51.36 kanzure it's gplv2-licensed nanotech cad
03:52.04 kanzure there's a lot of work that was put into it (about 5 to 10 developers over 4 years)
03:52.10 kanzure but it's no longer being actively developed
03:52.42 kanzure i know the license is poisonous to brlcad but maybe there's something i could that would make the code appealing to tack into brlcad? :/
04:07.58 starseeker kanzure: this one? http://nanoengineer-1.net
04:08.59 starseeker GPL is (unfortunately) a non-starter - however, you can go the other way and use BRL-CAD libraries in nanoengineer
04:10.01 kanzure meh
04:10.05 kanzure yeah that's one of the sites
04:10.09 kanzure http://nanorex.com/ too
04:10.14 kanzure actual code: http://diyhpl.us/cgit/nanoengineer
04:10.47 starseeker kanzure: believe me, the non-GPL restriction has been painful in the past
04:11.02 kanzure well, i know everyone who wrote code in this project and copyright changes are possible
04:11.17 kanzure basically a company was paying for the development of this code base, the company went belly up
04:11.31 kanzure and while i love the software i don't have time to convert all of the old libraries and dependencies and upgrade its usage
04:11.39 kanzure having said that, there's still some useful software in here somewhere
04:11.42 starseeker LGPL-v2 or Modified BSD both work
04:11.59 kanzure it's not directly related to solid modeling of course- it's atomically-precise CAD
04:12.24 kanzure so the overall utility to brlcad might be minimal
04:13.11 starseeker hard to say without a closer look
05:54.36 Ralith kanzure: you could talk to the old devs and attempt a relicense; it'll be hard, but they'd probably rather their code be used at all than not.
05:55.10 Ralith easier if the project had some foresight and had copyright assigned to one person.
06:13.08 kanzure it is
06:13.16 kanzure it's assigned to the company ;)
06:13.23 kanzure which is owned by a single dude
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08:15.47 ScribbleJ OMG an IRC channel
08:15.50 ScribbleJ I already love it
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11:41.03 dloman_ Mernin
12:49.32 ``Erik yargh
13:37.09 *** join/#brlcad culot (~culot@0xd0.org)
13:42.17 culot Hi, I am a FreeBSD committer and some days ago committed an update for the brlcad port (7.18.4) which was submitted by Erik Greenwald
13:42.42 culot I tested the update on i386 and it worked well, however our automated build system reports that compilation fails on amd64
13:42.48 culot see: http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/amd64-errorlogs/e.8.20110501074957/brlcad-7.18.4.log
13:43.09 culot is it a known problem?
14:34.19 ``Erik yeah, I saw the email, my amd64 fbsd8 box is having issues at the moment, so I can't test fixes :/
14:35.34 ``Erik (pav emailed me, too)
14:36.45 culot ``Erik: ok thanks, I was not sure you received the mails so sorry for asking again here
14:37.36 ``Erik a quick re-look makes it look like posix_memalign is defined in both /usr/include/mm_malloc.h and /usr/include/stdlib.h ... is this something that's changed on the amd64 branch?
14:37.54 ``Erik > /usr/include/mm_malloc.h:37: error: declaration of 'int posix_memalign(void**, size_t, size_t) throw ()' throws different exceptions
14:37.57 ``Erik > /usr/include/stdlib.h:160: error: from previous declaration 'int posix_memalign(void**, size_t, size_t)'
14:40.53 culot I am not sure, I will have to check
15:11.18 *** join/#brlcad dli (~dli@67.55.46.44)
15:13.54 CIA-105 BRL-CAD: 03davidloman * r44544 10/geomcore/trunk/ (2 files in 2 dirs): Add new Job: MakeAndRouteMsgJob. Will shortly supersede RouteMsgJob
16:08.01 CIA-105 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r44545 10/brlcad/trunk/src/tclscripts/mged/bindings.tcl: Don't do the mac keybinding fixes unless we're on Mac - they break zooming out on Linux.
16:18.33 culot ``Erik: would you be interested if I set up a jail for you on an amd64 box so you can test your fixes?
16:19.29 culot ``Erik: I would like to help you on this bug but I don't have much time now so I'm afraid giving you access to an amd64 box is the only help I could provide :'(
16:20.27 ``Erik sure, a jail would be great, I'm trying to get qemu installed on a machine right now
16:21.06 culot ``Erik: ok, I will give you access in a couple of minutes, just finishing the install
16:22.20 ``Erik awesome! if you do a depends on cad/brlcad, I wouldn't need sudo
16:22.58 culot I'll give you root access so you can do whatever you need to
16:23.10 ``Erik aight
16:32.28 culot ``Erik: did you get my private message?
17:06.21 ``Erik yup, sorry, was talking to someone
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19:21.45 CIA-105 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r44546 10/brlcad/trunk/ (4 files in 4 dirs): Gah. More consequences of our using Itcl/Itk internal headers. Also fix FindTCL to not return any sort of generic dir (correct or otherwise.)
19:40.36 CIA-105 BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r44547 10/brlcad/trunk/src/ (3 files in 3 dirs): Need unix dir too...
19:55.36 CIA-105 BRL-CAD: 03davidloman * r44548 10/geomcore/trunk/ (22 files in 8 dirs):
19:55.37 CIA-105 BRL-CAD: Experimental build. There was something really screwy with the way pkg was
19:55.37 CIA-105 BRL-CAD: handling chunks of data larger than 24k, so i unwired the send and recv portions
19:55.38 CIA-105 BRL-CAD: of pkg and "rolled my own". Things are much more stable and much faster. There
19:55.38 CIA-105 BRL-CAD: is still a bit of work todo, but geomcore compiles and runs at this point.
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