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22:19.06 brlcad starseeker: so caching is enabled, still going to the wrong directory but that's what I'm working on now
22:19.30 brlcad feel free to tag it as-is if you like, and I'm going to keep working on this through the weekend
22:21.36 brlcad the directory code is just about ready, but testing it is taking a while, few hours needed still
23:15.09 starseeker brlcad: OK, I'll hold off tagging
23:15.26 starseeker brlcad: is the news item update OK?
23:19.12 brlcad yeah, that looked great
23:20.05 starseeker also, wanted to double check with you about listing libtermio/libcursor - realized belatedly that you might interpret that as trying to sneak it in at the last second
23:20.44 starseeker wasn't my intent - just dawned on me that I hadn't checked to see what should be added to the deprecation list prior to tagging
23:22.46 starseeker ditto nixing dem-g
23:23.11 brlcad didn't take it that way, it's fine
23:24.21 brlcad they're not documented, so they don't technically need to go through deprecation -- just implementation detail libs
23:24.41 starseeker ah, OK
23:24.43 brlcad dem-g on the other hand, that obviously does
23:25.00 starseeker I think functionality wise gcv is a full replacement
23:25.27 starseeker was hoping could be categorized as minimally impacting, but game to do deprecation as well
23:25.31 brlcad and fwiw, it did work, but only with specific types of dem files and it didn't gracefully tell you when it wasn't that type
23:26.11 brlcad no, you're right -- I meant that it has docs
23:26.21 starseeker ah, it does?
23:26.23 brlcad but replacement is full and then some, so it's minimal
23:26.36 brlcad doesn't it?
23:26.38 starseeker I didn't see a man page...
23:26.40 starseeker double checks
23:27.45 brlcad ah yeah, no manual page, but I do believe it's been in many presentations and talks -- if doc/ where more comprehensive
23:27.53 starseeker nope - in fact,only grep hit in all of docs for dem-g is trunk_hierarchy.org
23:28.09 starseeker ah
23:28.11 starseeker point
23:28.23 starseeker yeah, most of the presentations haven't been docbookified
23:28.52 starseeker makes side note to figure out how to autogenerate trunk_hierarchy.org file... gets out of date pretty fast...
23:28.55 brlcad huh, that may not be true ...
23:29.10 brlcad I was thinking this was one of them, but it's not: http://brlcad.org/tmp/converters_page23.jpg
23:29.35 brlcad so yeah, maybe not even technically published ...
23:29.38 brlcad checks NEWS
23:29.41 starseeker whoops, two hits - tool_categories.txt lists it
23:30.29 brlcad yeah, it even got a highlight on the 7.14.2 release
23:30.39 brlcad still minimally impacting
23:30.59 starseeker winces slightly - wonder how many folks saw that highlight and fed it random dem files...
23:31.01 brlcad I'd just wait for a minor release (like this one)
23:31.24 starseeker so... leave it for now, or go ahead and yank it?
23:31.27 brlcad that was 9 years ago
23:31.39 starseeker erk
23:31.44 starseeker feels old now...
23:31.51 brlcad there really wasn't a huge variety of types in the wild back when that was done
23:31.57 starseeker ah
23:32.12 brlcad everything we got our hands on was typically one of two types
23:32.53 brlcad ascii and binary, and we only handled ascii iirc
23:33.28 brlcad and within those, a couple subtypes, but never encountered them
23:33.47 starseeker nods - I probably hit the binary case then
23:34.32 brlcad probably .. binary was relatively new and not in wide use ... I would expect that to have changed fully since then
23:34.48 brlcad and then the other formats came along
23:34.54 starseeker is undoubtely an old fogie, but he's glad to be back on IRC
23:35.03 brlcad look what I just ran across: http://brlcad.org/tmp/conversion-11663-run.log
23:35.33 starseeker O.o
23:35.34 brlcad yeah, I so need to get that bridge set up ... so I can talk to zulip from irc
23:35.56 starseeker holy smoke, what'd we break?
23:36.43 brlcad this was all objects, so you'd have to re-run to compare
23:37.02 starseeker oh, right
23:37.18 brlcad 10% bump isn't out of the bounds of possibility
23:37.33 brlcad definitely feels better :)
23:40.27 starseeker with a MAXTIME of file I would expect (hope) it would be pretty close - the fallback method isn't going to succeed that quickly in most cases
23:40.34 starseeker s/file/five seconds
23:44.15 starseeker also need to make sure to pull the geometry set from that era - a lot of the new ones (nist, faa) are going to drop the success percentages a lot
23:44.59 brlcad yeah, I wish I had that really big run later
23:47.41 starseeker wonder if we can get the commit bot working again now that they've had to lock down the channels against spamming
23:51.20 starseeker brlcad: where's it writing the cache at the moment? (just in case I need to clear it manually...)
23:51.25 brlcad conversion would make a good compliment under CI performance testing... a dashboard graphing out benchmark, conversion rate, db i/o metrics, and source code metrics
23:51.54 brlcad it's going to ~/rt_cache.tmp right now
23:52.08 starseeker nods
23:52.25 starseeker fyi, make check just passed on Linux
23:52.30 brlcad if you need to disable it, just set LIBRT_CACHE=off
23:53.08 starseeker It's cool - I mostly wanted to make sure which file to remove once it starts going where it should
23:53.15 brlcad nods
23:54.59 starseeker brlcad: I'm a little curious about btclsh's manipulation of the terminal state - is that necessary on modern systems, or a leftover from earlier eras?

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