(what) is Ximian thinking?!?
(what) is Ximian thinking?!?
Hmm, long time no entry
Been working on mooonsooon in my
do-nothing-for-days-and-then-start-working-like-crazy-for-a-while
mode :)
The framework is going pretty well. most of it seems to
be sortof working, now I just need to clean up everything
properly and stuff like that.
I also just updated to the newest bonobo, which was less
of a pain than I feared :) thanks to Nat for the script
I've been following the recent infobot development discussions, and with possible new features like factoid trust, better interbot communications and the removal of the irc dependency, it might be cool to write an office-assistant sortof interface to it. Add a factpack to every application, and you can ask questions, and get pretty good answers. With a central bot, people could even improve the factpack on the fly.
Wow, the lxr code is a lot nicer than the old stuff. I was working on getting some more color into the output when someone pointed me to the new version, so I checked that out. It works with an RDBMS now (although you can still use db). The developers are working with Postgresql, but since I already had mysql installed, I tried to get it to work with that.
Sent patch to the mailing-list after I succeeded. Now I'm thinking about how to best encapsulate the functionality of lxr in some bonobo component thingie, so my development environment will provide it's editor with a nice way to get those click-to-go-to-the-function-defitition thingies, etc.
Am also thinking it might be cool to add a table with RDP links in there, so while browsing gtk+/gnome code, you'll be able to look up what that function does with just one click.
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