IRC log for #brlcad on 20181001

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01:35.51 brlcad Storyteller: none that aren't included by default
01:36.15 Storyteller well, it needs x11
01:36.19 brlcad it will auto-detect what you have and use system versions if they are compatible
01:36.23 brlcad well, yes :)
01:36.28 Storyteller and my build, is wayland only
01:36.32 brlcad technically doesn't require x11
01:36.36 brlcad but then you won't get a GUI
01:36.48 Storyteller if I can get it to, Id like to get it to run in wayland
01:36.49 starseeker brlcad: I'm in the prcess of trying to merge to RELEASE - should I hold off? It's going to be a big merge (ditto RELEASE->STABLE) so it will take some time
01:37.03 Storyteller blender has a wayland compositor
01:37.12 starseeker Does Tk work with wayland?
01:37.48 brlcad starseeker: vs what?
01:38.23 Storyteller qt/kde does, and sdl
01:38.27 starseeker brlcad: sorry?
01:38.34 brlcad I have some bits of directory code I'm finalizing, but they don't need to hold up release
01:38.41 Storyteller idk if tk does
01:38.43 brlcad hold off vs not hold off, what's the consideration
01:38.56 Storyteller I may not even include kdeqt by default
01:39.17 Storyteller just wayland weston and gnutools. real minimal
01:39.25 Storyteller but brl would be nice
01:39.34 brlcad Storyteller: BRL-CAD will compile without a GUI and still fully function in command-mode -- that is a starting point if you'v not gotten anything to compile yet
01:39.50 brlcad and as for deps, you'll need a compiler, cmake, and libc
01:39.51 starseeker brlcad: ah - didn't want to miss a fix for directory location of cache by a few minutes if you were on the verge of committing
01:39.56 Storyteller no, just making dependency maps and organizing the project
01:40.03 Storyteller ok
01:40.31 Storyteller <PROTECTED>
01:40.36 brlcad starseeker: well maybe, but no need to hold up -- I can pull them through if you sync it first
01:40.41 brlcad do what you got to do
01:40.49 starseeker k, will do
01:41.27 starseeker this first sync should be the slow one in any case - looks like we were closing in on 2K commits, and with the year update in there it's hitting most of the files
01:41.57 brlcad nods
01:42.21 brlcad Storyteller: are you planning on trying to get it working on wayland, i.e., doing development to get it working?
01:42.25 starseeker arrrrrgh.... know any way to resume a merge if the server drops the connection mid stream?
01:42.36 Storyteller maybe
01:42.48 Storyteller first thing is to get a LFS up and running
01:43.11 Storyteller Im building a distro based on programming and science and math
01:43.42 Storyteller there are other distros tht use x11/xfree86
01:44.05 brlcad cool
01:44.12 brlcad starseeker: don't know
01:44.15 Storyteller mine is based on wayland, but only as an after tought, its focus is core commandline and text interfaces, or full framebuffer multitasking
01:44.22 Storyteller so, appreciate the help
01:44.40 brlcad Storyteller: I'd suggest starting with a command-line build then anyways
01:44.46 Storyteller ok
01:44.49 brlcad brl-cad is fully functional in command-mode
01:44.59 Storyteller what all can brl do in command mode?
01:45.00 brlcad over 400 utilities and 700 commands
01:45.18 Storyteller obviously, you cant really model a house or object to 3d print
01:45.24 Storyteller like, you could in blender
01:45.43 Storyteller but like 'volume of a complex manifold'?
01:45.51 brlcad anything it can do in GUI mode, just not in a 3D window
01:45.55 Storyteller could it read a file and spit out a number?
01:45.57 brlcad <PROTECTED>
01:46.00 Storyteller ok
01:46.08 Storyteller well, you couldnt see it
01:46.43 brlcad you can, it's just be a little tedious -- you can render to image, and display that
01:46.45 Storyteller can you render to file? or output a 3d window to a file?
01:47.10 Storyteller ok, so, maybe you could pipe its display to a framebuffer
01:47.20 brlcad right
01:47.23 Storyteller Ill look into it once I get further along
01:47.39 brlcad do you know if glfw works on wayland?
01:47.47 Storyteller not yet
01:48.21 brlcad huh, http://www.glfw.org/docs/latest/news.html says its experimental
01:49.36 brlcad so that's another possibility down the road -- we have an experimental visualization interface that doesn't rely on tk or X11, uses glfw, but then there's also an experimental Qt interfaces as well that might do the trick
02:01.42 Storyteller cool
02:02.03 Storyteller I might make a Qt/KDE extension package
02:02.30 Storyteller I need to get the core going. decide on bootloaders, filesystem, lvm or not, etc
02:02.38 Storyteller possible hardening
02:09.06 brlcad thanks for letting us know about it. I've been similarly interested in setting up a CAx distro for STEAM education, but haven't gotten too far into it
02:18.13 Storyteller #wayland is open
02:19.21 Storyteller https://wayland.freedesktop.org/toolkits.html
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03:49.07 starseeker is interested to note that the OpenFlipper GUI appears to have a functioning accordian widget in Qt
04:25.02 starseeker man... avg. almost 30 minutes per merge/commit op
04:27.49 starseeker brlcad: feel free to yank the tag and redo it if you want to propagate the other changes through - I forgot we don't have the commit bot so I missed the recent commits
04:28.57 starseeker scowls at sf/svn/network speeds
04:30.42 starseeker not sure if that was my network connection or on the sourceforge side, but that was amazingly painful
04:31.15 starseeker calls it a night
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