Advogato blog for ruud

21 Jun 2000

Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:36:04 GMT

[ Jun 20 ]

For the past few days, I have been playing with tsort from GNU textutils and getting it to work properly even with cycles in the input. Turns out that with an incremental shortest path algorithm this can be done both efficiently and elegantly (*cough*).

10 Jun 2000

Sat, 10 Jun 2000 17:17:25 GMT

Worked on the merging of the "smtp" and "sendmail" delivery methods of nmh. The actual merge wasn't that much of a problem, getting the autoconf stuff, man pages, config files, etc. synchronized was a bit more work.

9 Jun 2000

Fri, 9 Jun 2000 15:02:35 GMT

It seems I haven't posted a diary entry in almost two months, although not much happened in that time; I've mainly been working on my thesis.

I spent some time recently merging the Debian patches into the nmh tree. The only remaining Debian patch is for reading the hostname of outgoing mail from /etc/mailname, which I suppose makes little sense on non-Debian systems. Now I need to work on making some compile-time ./configure stuff run-time configurable (e.g., whether to deliver mail through /usr/sbin/sendmail or by sending it to 127.0.0.1:25).

I also discovered that programming in Haskell isn't as difficult as it looks.

20 Apr 2000

Thu, 20 Apr 2000 06:32:56 GMT

Had a discussion with wichert about doc-central features, which resulted in a big fla^H^H^H discussion about Python vs. Perl vs. PHP vs. the world with the whole irc channel.

Someone beat me to packaging cscope for Debian.

19 Apr 2000

Wed, 19 Apr 2000 07:02:29 GMT

Did a bit of work on wichert's doc-central project. In doing so, learned a bit about Python. It's an interesting language. Straightforward, yet powerful. And it doesn't look like line noise like some other scripting languages.

4 Apr 2000

Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:46:57 GMT

Set up an account at advogato :-)