IRC log for #brlcad on 20180315

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03:43.46 brlcad so distcheck is still failing on mac because of png. autodetect fails because it finds headers in one dir and incompatible libs elsewhere. compiles but fails at runtime (all the png apps abort when they try to create a png context).
03:43.58 brlcad so tests fail
05:50.23 DenisP I have been trying to fix #368 and got stuck, so I wanted to ask something.
05:50.35 DenisP What's the purpose of "edit" command from "libged/edit.c"? Is it being used in the latest build by mged or archer or is it a legacy thing? I can see that it's not used by rotate/scale/translate commands anymore and I get segfault if I try to use it in the command-line (just like in archer).
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13:24.42 brlcad DenisP: the edit command is a work-in-progress, intended to be a replacement for the 10-20 various other edit commands (orot, rot, sca, scale, tra, etc)
13:26.18 brlcad it was worked on pretty hard a few years ago (gsoc) but wasn't finished and is only sporadically worked on so it's not surprising if it's currently in a crashing state
13:27.01 brlcad that said, we still want it or at least something very much like it to consolidate our command set and improve usability
13:37.13 DenisP Mmm, so the ticket #368 is not really fixable at this point? Archer crushes with commands "rotate/translate/scale" because they call "edit rotate/edit translate/edit scale". As long as "edit" is not working, there's nothing to fix.
13:37.52 DenisP I'll pick something else then.
13:47.51 starseeker brlcad: what do you suggest on the mac? that sounds like the same problem we had with tcl/tk - multiple incompatible pieces from different installs. that was the source of most of the crazy complexity in the FindTCL file - trying to sort that out
13:48.31 starseeker it's really hard to do the right thing automatically when each individual find piece is legit by itself, but they don't combine correctly...
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21:45.10 ``Erik sync
21:48.02 ``Erik why aren't ya'll flushing your disk buffers? O.o
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23:57.09 brlcad your guess is as good as mine ;)

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