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15 Jun 2002 (updated 15 Jun 2002 at 05:07 UTC) »

Every once in awhile I happen upon some mention of one of the first open source contributions that I made, an XInput driver and notes to get a Calcomp DrawingSlate tablet working with XFree86 3.x. That was years ago; more recent versions of XFree86 include built-in support for Calcomp tablets courtesy of Martin Kroeker. Yet, funny though it may seem, my old hack still gets top ranking in Google when you search for "calcomp xinput".

(Speaking of time warps, as I write this, it's 2:00am June 15. I forgot that, when I post to Advogato, I'm in California where it's still yesterday.)

15 Jun 2002 »

Well I gots my immediate gratification, and my freshmeat page.

feji: Yeah Freshmeat calls it "Unix" but they'll list Linux-only projects. The Solaris makefile wasn't what was lacking; they just needed to see a link to the source code so they'd know the Unix support (meaning Linux/Unix support) wasn't vapour.

13 Jun 2002 (updated 13 Jun 2002 at 08:10 UTC) »

Well it looks like Freshmeat is going to come through for me after all. They just couldn't find my Unix source code (it was in CVS, but was not in a tarball). I've made some minor changes to my web site to make the Unix stuff more visible, so now it should go through easily.

Speaking of the web site: http ://ntxshape.sourceforge.net/opensource.html might be an interesting read. It talks about the different open source licenses, and how NTXShape ended up with MPL.

12 Jun 2002 »

Well, I have my project NTXShape running on SourceForge. Freshmeat won't take it though, saying they only list Unix projects. So, I rolled up my sleeves and got it working on Linux - this was on my short-term plan anyway and most of the groundwork was done - and then re-submitted to freshmeat. Again they say I must support Unix. So last night I got it to compile and run on Solaris/Sparc, and compared the results to the Win32 and Linux versions. They all work the same. Still they say "no freshmeat for you."

The Linux and Sparc support were on my to-do list, so I'm glad I found an excuse to do that, but now I want the immediate gratification!

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