Present Perfect

Another weekend, some more work on my project. I've used vcr a lot in development and I've decided to finally make a module for it.

It was hard and interesting, because it needs a lot of other rpm's to function properly. Not the least of which is avifile. avifile is getting ready for a 0.6 release. This should be a good thing; however, in practice, it means that there are a few RPM's out there for the older version, and there are also a few RPM's of CVS snapshots for the 0.6 version. On top of that, vcr is released against the author's own CVS snapshots, which aren't easily built or rpm'd, and so on ... You get the picture.

I suppose it makes for a quicker development cycle altogether, because with WebVCR depending on vcr and vcr depending on avifile and avifile depending on other stuff, it's a good thing that people can work on their software in an ongoing process.

Still, it's a good reason to gripe about this kind of stuff. Anyways, I finally decided on using an older vcr (Bram released a new version of vcr just as I finished writing an article explaining the RPM's !) with the older avifile from a Mandrake RPM.

Another weekend, some more work on my project. I've used vcr a lot in development and I've decided to finally make a module for it. It was hard and interesting,...

I added a module for Doom to the Dave/Dina project. One thing I absolutely *HATE* about CVS is the disability to delete top-level modules from your CVS root. I mean, it's easy enough to make a stupid mistake, but you have to have file system access to the cvsroot to delete them. So now I have to send a mail to SourceForge support to get rid of the directories I don't need. OK, so it's not really necessary, but I'd like to keep stuff tidy.

In unrelated news, went to see a band called Lift To Experience yesterday. I really love this band. Get their album, The Texas/Jerusalem Crossroads. They're hard to describe, but echoes of Jeff Buckley and My Bloody Valentine can be heard; the former for their inspired lyrics (although biblical) and soaring guitar parts, the other for their soundscapes and loud eruptions. This is just a personal opinion by the way.

Anyways, they seem very inspired and serious about what they're doing, and I'm not that much of a biblical person, but they convey the right sort of passion that is missing so much from contemporary music. Give them a listen.

I added a module for Doom to the Dave/Dina project. One thing I absolutely *HATE* about CVS is the disability to delete top-level modules from your CVS root. I mean,...

Decided to start using advogato.org Seems like a good idea to attract more developers for my hobby project, The Dave/Dina Project. Take a look if you're interested, every multimedia hacker should have one in his living room !

In preparation of the arrival of new developers, I re-organized some of the directory tree I use in developing everything. I'm sure every medium-scale project has issues like these.

For example, I have personal cvs copies on four machines : my work machine, my home machine, the actual Dave/Dina box itself, and my laptop (it's great to be working on trains !). I also have an anonymously checked out copy on the web server, from which bugs and todo files are generated.

So, what I did was to decide on a common directory layout for all of these cases, allowing for development cvs, anonymous cvs, actual building areas, and collection of end result RPM's used in the final distribution, to be rsync'd to the web server. I think I've decided on a pretty reasonable layout and structure, and maybe I'll comment on it some more in the future.

If you have similar problems, let me know.

Decided to start using advogato.org Seems like a good idea to attract more developers for my hobby project, The Dave/Dina Project. Take a look if you're interested, every multimedia hacker...