Older blog entries for tod (starting at number 2)

28 Dec 2001 »

Found simple bug in the blackdown-{jdk,jre} ebuilds and submitted patches.

Decided to try and gnu-ify the build of NIST dataplot. Yea, there are lots of statistics programs already available, but dataplot is nice for the following reasons.

1. It's been around since 1978 with continual enhancements and lots of testing. 2. It is integrated with the NIST/SEMATECH Handbook, very nice for learning about statistics.

Initally all I want to do is wrap the dataplot source with the Gnu build tools. Then might look into a gnome front-end for it.

I don't think licensing will be a problem as dataplot is public domain. However, I also would rather not fork the base code.

19 Dec 2001 »

Submitted tcl and tk ebuilds to gentoo.org to replace monolithic tcl-tk ebuild. Also submitted an ebuild for expect. The tcl and tk ebuilds also fixed a problem that prevents vim from being built with tcl scripting. Submitted a patch for that. Wait and see if they make it into CVS.

6 Dec 2001 (updated 19 Dec 2001 at 19:41 UTC) »

Opened this account months ago. I guess I should start using it.

Main current interest is Gentoo Linux, I contribute ebuilds and patches. Submitted a atlas ebuild recently and want to get a lapack one out so I can start working on R and ocatave.

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