IRC log for #brlcad on 20121231

03:41.29 Notify 03GCI: Harmanpreet Singh: Compile BRL-CAD using Dev-C++ - Task Assigned This task has been assigned to Alexandur Osenov. You have 48 hours to complete this task, good luck! http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7945220
03:42.39 Notify 03GCI: Harmanpreet Singh: Compile with -Wwrite-strings, fix warnings that ensue - Task Assigned This task has been assigned to gcking. You have 48 hours to complete this task, good luck! http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8090205
03:56.48 Notify 03GCI: Harmanpreet Singh: Find and Fix 20 spelling mistakes in at least 5 different files (#2) - Use latest code Yes, this is the souce, but not up to date. Since our various GCI tasks has resulted in so many updations in the source code, so you are recommended to use latest code. Check: http://brlcad.org/wiki/Deuces to get started. After... http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8122202
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04:42.33 yukonbob Hello #brlcad
05:09.37 Notify 03GCI: SudhaGranger: Find and Fix 20 spelling mistakes in at least 5 different files (#2) - Using SVN client There is no instruction to use SVN client in that link. How should I proceed ? And that was latest source file available on the website :O http://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/files/BRL-CAD%20Source/7.22.0/ http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8122202
05:15.24 Notify 03GCI: Sean: Create an ISST screenshot or animation - Wrong tool That is a screenshot of "archer". This task involves creating a screenshot or (better) animation of our "isst" tool. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7945221
05:15.29 Notify 03GCI: Sean: Create an ISST screenshot or animation - Task Needs More Work One of the mentors has sent this task back for more work. Talk to the mentor(s) assigned to this task to satisfy the requirements needed to complete this task, submit your work again and mark the task as complete once you re-submit your work. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7945221
05:17.40 Notify 03GCI: Osaze: Create a technical screenshot - Trying Out Files... Sorry, for taking so long to upload. I just figured out how to convert .stl, .3dm, and .step files to the .g format, and am now searching the web for a solid file. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8022221
05:18.31 Notify 03GCI: Sean: Find and Fix 20 spelling mistakes in at least 5 different files (#2) - outside of scope? Knowing how to use SVN is a very basic developer skill and not covered within our documentation because there are thousands of tutorials available around the web. I suggest you do a search for how to obtain BRL-CAD from our SVN repository. ... http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8122202
05:20.02 Notify 03GCI: Sean: Create a technical screenshot - quality matters That's okay, we care more about quality than speed of work. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8022221
05:20.21 Notify 03GCI: Sean: Create a technical screenshot - Deadline extended The deadline of the task has been extended with 1 days and 0 hours. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8022221
05:25.54 Notify 03GCI: Sean: Research offset macro consolidation - maybe OBE Frankly, with non k&r compilation, there may no longer be a real distinction between getting the offset of the first element and the name of the array. If that's the case for a variety of compilers, then the array macro may simply get replaced with the non-array version. That said,... http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8172202
05:27.35 Notify 03GCI: Sean: Implement a primitive volume function ... for gridded volumes (VOL) - didn't upload You apparently didn't upload a new version of the patch? http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7998215
05:27.45 Notify 03GCI: Sean: Implement a primitive volume function ... for gridded volumes (VOL) - Task Needs More Work One of the mentors has sent this task back for more work. Talk to the mentor(s) assigned to this task to satisfy the requirements needed to complete this task, submit your work again and mark the task as complete once you re-submit your... http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7998215
05:33.45 Notify 03BRL-CAD Wiki:Sean * 0 /wiki/Special:Log/delete: deleted "[[Around The Wake Of The Natural Estate Bubble6486435]]": spam
05:33.56 Notify 03BRL-CAD Wiki:Sean * 0 /wiki/Special:Log/block: blocked [[User:AvrilqdsgitqumuWalka]] with an expiry time of infinite (account creation disabled, e-mail blocked): Spamming links to external sites
05:34.06 Notify 03BRL-CAD Wiki:Sean * 0 /wiki/Special:Log/delete: deleted "[[Servicemembers And Debt Collection]]": spam
05:35.55 Notify 03GCI: Sean: Link all of our orphaned website wiki pages - looking good Sid, that looks really nice and your summary writeup is perfect. However, I note that there are still some orphaned pages: http://brlcad.org/wiki/Special:Lonelypages How long did it take you to actually perform the wiki edits for the 10 that you worked on? How long do... http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8095206
05:36.05 Notify 03GCI: Sean: Link all of our orphaned website wiki pages - Deadline extended The deadline of the task has been extended with 1 days and 0 hours. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8095206
05:36.20 Notify 03GCI: Sean: Link all of our orphaned website wiki pages - Task Needs More Work One of the mentors has sent this task back for more work. Talk to the mentor(s) assigned to this task to satisfy the requirements needed to complete this task, submit your work again and mark the task as complete once you re-submit your work. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8095206
05:44.19 Notify 03GCI: Sean: Find and Fix 10 spelling mistakes in at least 10 different files (#2) - patch format Amit, those aren't proper patch files. Patch files have a specific format and done properly will be only one text file. See http://brlcad.org/wiki/Patches for help but the basic idea is that you need an SVN checkout of our sources and then you'll... http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8103205
05:47.00 Notify 03GCI: Osaze: Create a technical screenshot - Thanks! Thank you for the extra time! http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8022221
06:14.01 Notify 03GCI: Melange: Create an artistic screenshot - Task Reopened Melange has detected that the final deadline has passed and it has reopened the task. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8025213
06:51.06 Notify 03GCI: Melange: Create a flex+bison tutorial - No more Work can be submitted Melange has detected that the deadline has passed and no more work can be submitted. The submitted work should be reviewed. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7985245
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08:47.36 Notify 03GCI: SudhaGranger: Find and Fix 20 spelling mistakes in at least 5 different files (#2) - Claim Removed The claim on this task has been removed, someone else can claim it now. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8122202
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11:00.44 starburst Can anyone tell me where to find & how to launch brl-cad's isst tool? Currently using win7
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11:18.29 Notify 03GCI: Dobromir Ivanov: Create an ISST screenshot or animation - ISST tool I seem to have trouble finding & launching the tool. I downloaded and installed BRL-CAD (on Windows 7 Ultimate) from your site, but I'm unable to locate the isst tool on my system. All I have is archer and MGED. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7945221
11:44.50 Notify 03GCI: V Rahul: Find and Fix 5 spelling mistakes in at least 40 different files (#2) - Task Claimed I would like to work on this task. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8093205
11:57.38 Notify 03GCI: V Rahul: Find and Fix 5 spelling mistakes in at least 40 different files (#2) - FIle name I have downloaded the latest version of the BRL-CAD source code. What are the files I should open and check? http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8093205
13:04.07 Notify 03GCI: dmusan: Crash our raytracer application reliably - Sorry for sending work so late I apologize for sending the file so late, but I was on vacation and I didn't have my laptop with me. I hope what I have done is okay and if not please tell me how I could do better. Thank you and happy holidays! http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8018211
13:07.28 Notify 03GCI: Cezar: Research offset macro consolidation - Code I've written a small program to test offsetof with bitfields. I tried different numbers, placing the char array in different places, and compiling with both gcc 4.2 and llvm 3.1, and the numbers were always equal http://slexy.org/view/s20ovFFvuX. As for non-byte-aligned values, I tried... http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8172202
13:43.15 Notify 03BRL-CAD Wiki:87.168.173.192 * 4822 /wiki/Help:Searching:
14:16.40 Notify 03GCI: Sean: Find and Fix 5 spelling mistakes in at least 40 different files (#2) - Task Assigned This task has been assigned to V Rahul. You have 72 hours to complete this task, good luck! http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8093205
14:18.00 Notify 03GCI: Sean: Find and Fix 5 spelling mistakes in at least 40 different files (#2) - latest svn To be sure, you need to download our latest sources from Subversion, not the 7.22.0 source tarball. You can find and fix spelling mistakes in any files that are ours. That means ignore src/other/ and misc/. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8093205
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14:23.58 Notify 03GCI: Sean: Crash our raytracer application reliably - backtrace If rt actually crashed, you should be able to capture a stack trace. That is a record of all the functions there were called at the time it crashed. I won't have time to verify whether your description qualifies as a crash for a day or two (maybe one of the other mentors can... http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8018211
14:24.15 Notify 03GCI: Sean: Crash our raytracer application reliably - Deadline extended The deadline of the task has been extended with 2 days and 0 hours. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8018211
14:27.01 Notify 03GCI: Sean: Create an ISST screenshot or animation - windows Getting the tool to run on Windows is problematic. That said, we provide a disk image that should run isst fine. See our http://brlcad.org/wiki/Deuces page for instructions on how to download and run the image, then you should be able to run isst there. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7945221
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14:56.30 Notify 03GCI: Dobromir Ivanov: Create an ISST screenshot or animation - ubuntu Ok, I also have ubuntu 12.04 how do I do it in Ubuntu? http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7945221
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15:16.54 Notify 03GCI: Melange: Create a numerics library (LIBBN) API unit test ... for vert_tree.c - Initial Deadline passed Melange has detected that the initial deadline has passed and it has set the task status to ActionNeeded. The student has 24 hours to submit the work before the task is reopened and sent back to the pool for other students to claim. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7994229
15:17.09 Notify 03GCI: Deep Inder Singh: Layout "MGED Interface" Reference Document - Ready for review The work on this task is ready to be reviewed. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7953233
15:43.41 Notify 03GCI: Jacob B: Modify IRC notifier output - Task Claimed I would like to work on this task. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7979224
15:50.44 Notify 03GCI: Daniel Rossberg: Modify IRC notifier output - Task Assigned This task has been assigned to Jacob B. You have 48 hours to complete this task, good luck! http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7979224
15:54.36 Notify 03GCI: Melange: Add missing documentation for any one command (#9) - Initial Deadline passed Melange has detected that the initial deadline has passed and it has set the task status to ActionNeeded. The student has 24 hours to submit the work before the task is reopened and sent back to the pool for other students to claim. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8121203
16:11.38 Notify 03GCI: Daniel Rossberg: Create a flex+bison tutorial - It still needs some polish Tere are still some white-space issues, eg new-line in sentences, missing blanks between words or word and punktuation, trailing blanks and tabs. You should make more paragraphs. It's hard to read. What's yywrap() and yyparse() good for? (I don't know anything... http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7985245
16:11.43 Notify 03GCI: Daniel Rossberg: Create a flex+bison tutorial - Task Needs More Work One of the mentors has sent this task back for more work. Talk to the mentor(s) assigned to this task to satisfy the requirements needed to complete this task, submit your work again and mark the task as complete once you re-submit your work. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7985245
16:11.53 Notify 03GCI: Daniel Rossberg: Create a flex+bison tutorial - Deadline extended The deadline of the task has been extended with 2 days and 0 hours. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7985245
16:13.14 Notify 03GCI: Sean: Research offset macro consolidation - hat's actually the concern That link you found is exactly a good summary of the various issues. Yep, it's a bit old but then so is our code and that offset code predates even C standardization ... :) What I don't know is whether the C89 (or C99 or POSIX.1 or some other standard) say anything... http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8172202
16:16.02 Notify 03GCI: Sean: Create an ISST screenshot or animation - you can try You can try compiling BRL-CAD from a source checkout, but note that you will probably need to install some dependencies. Walking you through all of that is a bit out-of-scope for GCI but you're welcome to try. The VM image is preconfigured for that very purpose and should... http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7945221
16:21.56 Notify 03GCI: Daniel Rossberg: Create a flex+bison tutorial - And ... ... you should put all relevant files into one container file (.zip, .tar, ...). This way we know what to review and there will be no confusion in file revisions (eg you refer to calculator.yacc in the tutorial but the real file was calculator2.yacc). http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7985245
16:22.06 Notify 03GCI: Vibhav Pant: Implement a primitive volume function ... for gridded volumes (VOL) - Ready for review The work on this task is ready to be reviewed. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7998215
16:33.32 Notify 03GCI: Dobromir Ivanov: Create an ISST screenshot or animation - I ran it OK, so I managed to run it under my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installation, but when I open any DB, a window pops up and prompts me to select geometry to display and no matter what I select It does not show anything. Can you give me some links to documentation on the isst tool,... http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7945221
16:40.55 Notify 03GCI: Cezar: Research offset macro consolidation - Title I found another discussion here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/713963/why-does-this-c-code-work/714206#714206 As far as I understand, the compiler is free to define offsetof however it wants, so `#define offsetof(t, m) 4` would be perfectly valid, although of not much help. I... http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8172202
16:58.36 Notify 03GCI: Daniel Rossberg: Implement a primitive volume function ... for gridded volumes (VOL) - Why is the voxel variable a short? voxel gets its value from an unsigned char and will be casted to a size_t before it will be compared to an uint32_t. There is no short in this pipeline. How about making it an unsigned char and if necessary casting... http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7998215
16:58.51 Notify 03GCI: Daniel Rossberg: Implement a primitive volume function ... for gridded volumes (VOL) - Task Needs More Work One of the mentors has sent this task back for more work. Talk to the mentor(s) assigned to this task to satisfy the requirements needed to complete this task, submit your work again and mark the task as complete once you... http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7998215
16:59.01 Notify 03GCI: Daniel Rossberg: Implement a primitive volume function ... for gridded volumes (VOL) - Deadline extended The deadline of the task has been extended with 1 days and 0 hours. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/7998215
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17:17.50 Notify 03GCI: Osaze: Create a technical screenshot - Update Hello! I have found a file that is solid enough to convert to the .g format. Here is a picture of it (https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bynn_SEJ0093WEFrSGRyWGJmTmc). The original file can be found here (http://grabcad.com/library/dragon-charm). Is this file complex enough to continue... http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8022221
18:35.00 Notify 03GCI: Gauravjeet Singh: Design a prototype CAD GUI layout - Ready for review The work on this task is ready to be reviewed. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8115209
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19:30.01 csanyipal Happy New Year!
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19:57.30 Notify 03GCI: amit.daBeast: Find and Fix 10 spelling mistakes in at least 10 different files (#2) - patches i read the patches site, but it doesnt describe on how to get a SVN checkout and whenever i make a patch file it says its not a working copy (but it still makes the patch file anyways) http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8103205
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22:24.23 Notify 03GCI: Frank: Fix Visual Studio Express compilation errors - Task Claimed I would like to work on this task. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8009222
22:26.49 Notify 03GCI: Frank: Fix Visual Studio Express compilation errors - Claim Removed The claim on this task has been removed, someone else can claim it now. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8009222
22:27.09 Notify 03GCI: Frank: Fix Visual Studio Express compilation errors - Task Claimed I would like to work on this task. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8009222
22:29.40 Notify 03GCI: Frank: Fix Visual Studio Express compilation errors - Claim Removed The claim on this task has been removed, someone else can claim it now. http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8009222
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23:51.26 Osaze_ Hello! Is there a certain way to overlay render in mged? If so, what command should I be looking at?
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