Word to the wise: Do not pick up "The Turing Option" (Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky, 1992) intending to read just the first 50 pages or so. I read the entire 500 pages in a stretch, procastinating the things I'd planned to do during those seven hours. That's almost a standard workday (if any such thing exists.)
Oh, well, I enjoyed the book.
No new free software stuff today.
I've spent the day doing a bunch of 'environment maintenance' (asking customers to stop having their system automatically bug me when the customer doesn't handle their own problems, fixing minor bugs, etc) and working on the design of two new frameworks: One to do distributed transaction & message handling, and one to do customizable user interfaces (including ability to plug new functionality into a user interface, and having multiple versions of a user interface that still use the same backend.)
Hairy, but fun. Now: Take the weekend.
Adding deltas on branches in CVSFile didn't work after all. I've fixed it, and added code to let it manipulate branches and symbols. This is enough that it should be possible to start doing fun stuff with it - I'm going to try to produce a merged FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD CVS repository the next time I get some time to hack.
Still no docs beyond the source code, though.
On a more personal level, a new piano miracolously showed up here without the need of going through the go-out-and-blow-a-lot-of-money routine I'd originally expected to go through to get one (my grandmother suddenly called and wanted to buy me one.)
This is cool, though the timing is lousy, as I'm moving in a few days. Can't have it all, I guess.
Finally got around to fixing up my perl module to manipulate RCS/CVS files enough that it might actually be useful for manipulation.
It is now able to read and write RCS/CVS files, to retrieve the text for any version in the file, and to add new versions on an already existing branch. It is robust enough on the read/write that I couldn't find any errors in a full pass through the FreeBSD repository (reading in every single file, writing it out, and looking through the diffs between the original and the new copy.)
Forward steps:
Preliminary code is at http://www.freebsd.org/~eivind/CVSFile-0.1.tar.gz.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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