IRC log for #brlcad on 20101108

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08:34.53Ralithanybody else get some survey email mentioning BRL-CAD?
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11:59.06d-loMernin all
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12:40.27CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r41268 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libged/erase.c: remove dead code. clean up usage. needs updating to bu_getopt().
12:40.49brlcadRalith: people spam sourceforge projects with survey mails from time to time
12:41.05brlcadI haven't received one lately but have received at least a half-dozen in the past
12:41.24brlcadat least one officially sponsored by sourceforge, but most are not
12:41.53brlcadI usually e-mail them back asking if they have sourceforge approval and giving them hell if they don't
12:42.21brlcadstarseeker: that is correct, they went with a small sample of just 15 orgs for this year
12:42.52brlcadthe page still becomes a great newbie resource, I think we can reuse that for a few purposes
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13:52.01starseekerbrlcad: absolutely :-)  just making sure I understood the google page correctly
13:52.16starseekersaddles up and drives in
13:53.12``Erikjust called in :/
13:53.33``Erika lot of sf spam seems to be related to chinese unis
14:52.50CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r41269 10/brlcad/branches/STABLE/ (861 files in 144 dirs): Merge trunk into STABLE branch up through r41256. Need to confirm this manually to ensure nothing slipped through the cracks - was a long merge.
14:56.38CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r41270 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS:
14:56.38CIA-48BRL-CAD: nick fixed a bug on 28AUG2010 in bot_decimate where the bookkeeping in
14:56.38CIA-48BRL-CAD: decimate_edge() was missing an edge case while updating the edge list and that
14:56.38CIA-48BRL-CAD: sometimes caused the routine to access a freed structure (which caused a bus
14:56.38CIA-48BRL-CAD: error). this fixes an mged crash bug as well as any other decimation
15:05.31CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r41271 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS: hm! there is already a minor-update-worthy feature included. nick reed implemented a new bot editing interface for mged and archer that greatly simplifies bot processing.
15:08.14brlcadstarseeker: this can be a minor release
15:08.34starseekercool!
15:08.46starseekerhow does one launch the bot editing gui?
15:08.58brlcadI was just going to say, test and make sure it works ;)
15:09.19brlcadbot command or maybe menu option, or maybe boteditor
15:09.23brlcadarcher and mged
15:09.55starseekerwe probably don't need to worry about archer this round unless you want me to enable ogl by default
15:11.06brlcadI mean just to make sure the gui pops up
15:11.13starseekerah, k
15:16.32starseekersweet - looks like the merge succeeded
15:16.43starseekerbreaths a sigh of relief
15:17.22brlcadI'm doing a final pass through outstanding unreviewed commits, so there may be a few more NEWS items
15:17.48starseekerno problem - I anticipate at least one more STABLE sync - just wanted to get that nasty one out of the way
15:17.55brlcadthought I caught everything for the review, but apparently not
15:18.07brlcadsuccessful tree diff?
15:18.10starseekeryep
15:18.19brlcadcool
15:18.54starseekermade distcheck on both trunk and STABLE, got the tarballs, expanded 'em, did a recursive diff - only things were a bunch of date stamps from RCS lines
15:19.25starseekerwas awesome - was figuring on at least a few botched/conflicted files
15:19.48starseekerhad to leave the merge command running - was slllooooww
15:24.21CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r41272 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS:
15:24.21CIA-48BRL-CAD: richard fixed a bug in the point cloud primitive where my "don't bother
15:24.21CIA-48BRL-CAD: dequeing" message was apparently a "bad thing" to do. when freeing the point
15:24.21CIA-48BRL-CAD: cloud's bu_list, the forward pointer was being referenced after it was freed
15:24.21CIA-48BRL-CAD: (presumably causing a crash or valgrind failure). fix calls BU_LIST_DEQUE (like
15:32.23CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r41273 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS:
15:32.23CIA-48BRL-CAD: bob fixed a bug people were running into in mged where the various external
15:32.23CIA-48BRL-CAD: commands (rt, rtedge, gqa, nirt, etc) were failing to be found if you changed
15:32.23CIA-48BRL-CAD: your directory or ran dbopen with a relative path. mged would invoke 'rt
15:32.23CIA-48BRL-CAD: relative/path/to/file.g' and get a file-not-found error if the cwd was not the
15:37.36CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r41274 10/brlcad/trunk/TODO:
15:37.36CIA-48BRL-CAD: dbopen needs some tlc, particularly on windows due to a change bob make in
15:37.36CIA-48BRL-CAD: db_open.c in librt. we need to keep track of the initial PWD in the dbip.
15:37.36CIA-48BRL-CAD: stashing the full path into dbi_filename is inadequate as we then lose
15:37.36CIA-48BRL-CAD: information about how the file was opened (which is important for output,
15:43.54CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r41275 10/brlcad/trunk/misc/nsis/brlcad.nsi: don't comment out code without leaving a comment why it's commented out but needs to stay. remove dead code.
15:47.16CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r41276 10/brlcad/trunk/NEWS:
15:47.16CIA-48BRL-CAD: bob added a call to RequestExecutionLevel to set the execution level to user to
15:47.16CIA-48BRL-CAD: get the failed CreateShortCut calls to work. this (presumably) should get past
15:47.16CIA-48BRL-CAD: an installation failure/error about not being able to create shortcuts due to
15:47.16CIA-48BRL-CAD: permission failures. presumably also only creates shortcuts for the current
15:54.24CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r41277 10/brlcad/trunk/TODO:
15:54.24CIA-48BRL-CAD: lots of updates. rename g_* tools. tess failures are out of date. forum links
15:54.24CIA-48BRL-CAD: fixed. parallel prep has a diff meaning. man pages are exposed in mged (albeit
15:54.24CIA-48BRL-CAD: not searchable). x3d is vrml, importer needed. raytracers output multiple
15:54.24CIA-48BRL-CAD: image formats. opengl instead of gpgpu.
15:58.59CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r41278 10/brlcad/trunk/src/librt/primitives/nmg/nmg_mk.c:
15:58.59CIA-48BRL-CAD: richard made a change that fixed a problem and causes a problem, so document it
15:58.59CIA-48BRL-CAD: as a FIXME. the memory needs to be released properly and/or the memory
15:58.59CIA-48BRL-CAD: management expectations of nmg_je() needs to be documented. just removing the
15:58.59CIA-48BRL-CAD: free is a memory leak.
16:19.19CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r41279 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libbn/mat.c: use vmath macros where equivalent for moving, scaling, and transposing. V3ARGS for args. avoid bombing at all costs unless if there is no sensible return possible, return a zero output if input is zero.
16:34.19CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r41280 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libbn/ (mat.c plane.c): ws and brace cleanup
16:59.05CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r41281 10/brlcad/trunk/src/librt/primitives/nmg/ (8 files): remove lots and lots of dead code. particularly for #if 0 and #if 1 code that has no else clause, but even for some of those that do that are not relevant without revisiting the code.
17:02.54starseekerbrlcad: unless I'm nuts, the bot editor looks to be Archer-only at the moment - I see where nick committed a bot command to MGED's setup.c, but it doesn't launch the GUI
17:09.08starseekerthe gui itself is an Archer plugin
17:25.56starseekercan get the bot editor command to load, but it does nothing - when I feed it the command line options documented in botEditor.tcl, I get Error: bad window path name
17:32.09starseekerlooking over all of n_reed's commits, I only find one that mentions MGED:  http://brlcad.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/brlcad?view=revision&revision=40093
17:35.48starseekerah HAH!
17:37.45starseekerok... that's kinda bad
17:37.52starseekerletsee...
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18:00.19CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r41282 10/brlcad/trunk/src/tclscripts/mged/ (Makefile.am openw.tcl tclIndex): Get a (very) basic menu based approach to getting the Bot Editor going in MGED.
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18:00.59CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r41283 10/brlcad/trunk/src/tclscripts/mged/botedit.tcl: Whoops, how about adding the file.
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19:14.38CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * r41284 10/brlcad/trunk/src/rt/opt.c: rt_cmdtab does not have a background command so set the background locally (i.e. don't call rt_do_cmd()).
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21:07.28CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r41285 10/brlcad/branches/cmake/src/bwish/main.c: Add Tcl_FindExecutable - this may fix the problems with finding init.tcl for btclsh.
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22:14.21CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * r41286 10/brlcad/trunk/src/rt/opt.c: Undo previous revision.
22:29.33starseekermakes a note to check this out at some point: http://www.visualizationlibrary.com/jetcms/
22:51.58CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r41287 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libtclcad/ged_obj.c:
22:51.58CIA-48BRL-CAD: eliminate lots of calls to MAXARGS (beginning of a process to remove the array
22:51.58CIA-48BRL-CAD: constant), replace with a -1 that implies unlimited. mark the unused maxargs
22:51.58CIA-48BRL-CAD: params. simplify go_edit_redraw_func() to not match the signature of others
22:51.58CIA-48BRL-CAD: since it's doing something much simpler and isn't used in the command table.
23:13.09CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03r_weiss * r41288 10/brlcad/trunk/TODO: Updated TODO list for next release to fix bu_realloc so passing in size zero will perform a free instead of allocating the minimum size to store a pointer.
23:15.46CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r41289 10/brlcad/trunk/src/gtools/g_qa.c: what's up with the fixed length array? eliminate MAXARGS and make it dynamic
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23:21.57CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * r41290 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libbu/parse.c:
23:21.58CIA-48BRL-CAD: Modified _bu_struct_lookup() to consider a sp_fmt[1] of 'p' when deciding to
23:21.58CIA-48BRL-CAD: move on to the next item in the bu_structparse array. This fixes breaks in the
23:21.58CIA-48BRL-CAD: rt family of applications when using any of the view_parse variables.
23:31.18CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * r41291 10/brlcad/trunk/src/libbu/parse.c: Minor mod to _bu_struct_lookup(). Apparently the 'i' is not prepended with a '%' so using sp_fmt[0] when comparing with 'i' is correct for this case only.
23:33.37CIA-48BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r41292 10/brlcad/trunk/src/ (35 files in 4 dirs): eliminate a slew of checks for exceeding MAXARGS bounds as part of process of eliminating the static size limit.

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