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[arch-projects] Opinion on a project of mine
by Martin Lefebvre 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hey guys Since this is a "projects" list, I decided to ask for eberybody's opinion regarding a project I would like to start... I have recently installed xmms2, and I am actually disappointed with the existing GUI clients, so I have decided to make my own... I am just not sure which language to use... I know python, a bit of C/C++, etc... Which one would you use for a project like that? (I can already hear someone screaming "JAVA!!!") :P -- Martin Lefebvre eMail: dadexter(a)gmail.com WWW: https://sigterm.homeunix.com Registered Linux User #349269 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT dpu s:-- a- C+++ UL++++ P-- L++++ E--- W+++ N++ o-- K- w--- O- M-- V-- PS PE Y PGP-- t+++ 5- X R- tv++ b+ DI-- D+ G-- e h++ r++ y** ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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[arch-projects] Arch AMD64 Port
by Dusty Phillips 27 May '05

27 May '05

Is anybody on this list associated with the project to port Arch packages to AMD 64? Or does anybody know who to contact about it? I know there's a forum topic for it, but I was hoping there might be a mailing list or project page somewhere. Or is it generally discussed on the AL mailing list, which I don't subscribe to? Or is it dead? I've got an AMD 64 machine sitting beside my desk seducing me into taking it home... countdown until 5:00 Alberta time begins now... :-D Dusty

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[arch-projects] Dead list
by Dusty Phillips 24 May '05

24 May '05

I can't believe I go offline for a few weeks and you guys let this list die. Shame on all of you. I thought I was the only one that wasn't working on any projects lately. Well, not true. I'm working on a website, and I'm getting paid to do it... I haven't been working on any interesting projects besides ordering a new computer. I'm going to be joining the AMD64 porting project sometime. ;-) And until then, Ensmer is on hold. What is everybody else doing lately, eh? On a more personal note, I have been accepted into the graduate program at York University. Apparently I'm going to be able to play with some cutting edge VR equipment. I hope that means I can take Ensmer into another dimension, as it were. Should be interesting times... only less time for Arch now, between having a summer job and a 5 term full time student program ahead of me. :( Dusty

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[arch-projects] New ensmer development release
by Dusty Phillips 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

In case anybody's interested, I've released a new development version of Ensmer. It doesn't include any screenshots, since it looks pretty much the same as before, but there's quite a few internal changes. Here's the announcement: https://ensmer.dev.java.net/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=2151 Another note, this release uses the build.groovy format I described earlier, and also uses groovy unit tests. The way that I did this may be kind of interesting to Java developers, as it is a lot cleaner than any other groovy build/test mechanism I have been able to find on the web. It is also cleaner than an ant build mechanism. I'm not absolutely certain where I want to take Ensmer right now. I think I'll probably start making some modifications to EnsmerMail next, since the stable release won't work at all with the development release of the core. I may focus on EnsmerMail for a while to make it genuinely useable... Dusty

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[arch-projects] Groovy ant-builder
by Dusty Phillips 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

A while ago I posted my interest in using Groovy instead of ant for scripting my build file. I spent the last couple of days working on this. I thought people might be interested in my results. Summarizing my previous post, I don't like ant because I don't like XML. I think that's about all the important points... I have two comparable build files, though they do not perform identically. Here's a comparison of them based on size: dusty:~ $ wc build.groovy build.xml 138 319 3630 build.groovy 158 584 6262 build.xml The xml build file has 20 more lines, and almost twice as many words and characters as the groovy build file. In other words, a groovy build file is less typing, although you would tend to press the enter key about an equal number of times. Here are the two files, for visual comparison (NOTE: I removed some targets from the xml file that haven't been implemented in the groovy script yet, but they still aren't identical): http://www.buchuki.com/misc/build.xml http://www.buchuki.com/misc/build.groovy Unfortunately, firefox won't syntax-highlight the groovy file. Aside from that, which one do people think is easier to read? I personally prefer the groovy markup, but maybe I'm strange. The main observation I found coding the groovy file is that its much easier to reduce duplication of code in a groovy script (just toss it in a method) than in an ant file (put it in a target and depend on it, sometimes conditionally). Also, its easier to group properties together into maps and having generic code manipulate them. This reduces both the number of total properties and the total amount of code. Most articles I've read have been anti-groovy scripting, and I doubt this would become a standard either within the Java community (ie: where ant currently dominates) or across all projects that need build management. I just find it interesting, and I must confess that I prefer it. Comments? Dusty

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[arch-projects] xenophile status
by Jason Chu 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

I bashed out a quick xenomail daemon yesterday. It is notified over jabber-rpc by a second script (it's not the best notification system and will be updated later) telling you whenever a new email comes in. So far there exists xenonote, xenoremind, and xenomail. I'm not sure what my friend has working daemon wise. I know he was working on shell directory detection: a sort of directory sensitive notification daemon. We'd like to make a release Mayish, so if anyone is interested in trying it out feel free to get the code from svn here: https://xentac.net/svn/xenophile/trunk/ If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask. I'm trying to drum up interest here people ;P Jason -- If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.

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[arch-projects] new WMII snapshot
by Dusty Phillips 10 Apr '05

10 Apr '05

This is mostly for phrakture, the window manager developer and WMII packager. Just a note to say wmii has released a new snapshot. I don't see they've updated the docs or anything, so this may be an insignificant release... or maybe they just haven't gotten around to updating the docs yet. I'm getting a little tired of wmi... so I may be switching soon. I like that wmii has better support for floating windows. When a dialog box appears full screen in wmi, I don't like it much. Even if I toggle the mode, it often doesn't show up right, especially with Java apps. Dusty

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[arch-projects] phpwiki-to
by cactus 09 Apr '05

09 Apr '05

http://e.solarblue.net/index.php/2005/04/08/41/ and http://user-contributions.org/forums/userproject/viewtopic.php?t=120 Synopsis: I am in the process of writing a python script that extracts phpwiki wikitext from a phpwiki install. Eventually phpwiki-to will have 2 connection mechanisms, and 3 export types. * The two connection mechanisms are: gdbm (for old school phpwiki) * mysql (for newer phpwiki) The three export types are: * plain wiki text * html (some simple html subset) * solarwiki xml (solarwiki compatible xml files) I will then write a simple solarwiki xml importer that will work with the solarwiki specific xml files. But..right now the gdbm to plain wiki-text output is mostly working, althought I have no idea how well, and the html export is partially working (formatting is a bid hosed up. I need more work on the regexp or a parser of some type). Be kind, this is my first python proggy.ever..(started picking up python last week).

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[arch-projects] New small project proposition
by Aaron Griffin 09 Apr '05

09 Apr '05

So, I always screw myself up when using vim - I work professionally using VS.NET, and there's alot of features that are real nice... most can be worked into vim somehow (for instance, the way the HOME key will toggle between column 0 and the first non-whitespace char). The only one I miss is the context-sensitive completion of VS.NET... Now I'm not talking about a little popup window with all the accessability and things like that... I'm just looking for <C-N> and <C-P> to complete within the context of the class/struct/union... I've looked a bit into some of the plugins that vim has right now and most of them suck. There are 3 though, that I cannot test yet... 2 are ruby-based, another perl-based... stupid win32 and their paths and grrr... "cannot load library perl58.dll, aborting" I give up... Anyway, what I'd like to do is create a little stand alone app that could very easilly be integrated into vim, or anything else... seeing as I like to think from the outside inward, here's the interface I have in my head: $ findsyms "XCreateSimpleW" /usr/include/X11/Xlib.h XCreateSimpleWindow $ findsyms --signature "signal5::conn" /usr/include/sigc++ void sigc::signal5::connect(const slot5&) $ cat "my_file.c" | findsyms --signature "foo" bool foo(int,int) $ findsyms "java.lang.String" /path/to/java/jar ...list all public String members... # from vim: :!findsyms <cword> % "well, not exactly... I'd need to get the type of a variable in the case of OO simple: scan file + included files for matching definitions basically, if finds matching patterns... not too hard... ideally, I'd go really generic and create language files to describe what each scope looks like, what an include file looks like, and how to determine if something is visible at that scope of not c++ would be rough when you get into templates (that sigc:: one would fail unless it ignores templates), but c would be easy, as would things like python... and maybe perl I want to be able to use this in vim somehow as a dict file... Now I may be way off with this, and there may be a simple way to do it *within* vim... but I don't know... Anyone have any opinions? Feel free to debase me or whatever... or suggest a language that would do this easiest... just really thinking outloud today

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[arch-projects] GroovyWeather 0.2
by Dusty Phillips 08 Apr '05

08 Apr '05

Groovy just updated their beta release from 1.0beta-10 to 1.0-jsr-01. The syntax has changed a fair bit, because they're standardizing Groovy using a JSR -- its going to be the standard java scripting language, I guess. What this means is that after I updated groovy this afternoon, groovyweather no longer worked. 0.2 includes a few syntax modifications to work with the JSR syntax. http://www.buchuki.com/groovyweather.html Its still eating resources -- I haven't bothered to figure out why, I've assumed the problem is in groovy, and not in my script... hehe. Dusty

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