Unix secrets of billionaires
One reason why I wanted to write distcc is that when you have to wait for a computer, it costs more than just the time it actually takes for the job (compile, test whatever) to run. Nobody likes to just sit blankly waiting, so I tend to do mail or irc while the job is running, and sometimes stay distracted by that for a long time after it completed.
Mark has a simple but effective tool to reduce this lost time: a little script called alarum that plays a sound, so he can run make check; alarum and come straight back when it's done or failed. On my machine I have
% cat ~/bin/alarum ogg123 /usr/share/games/neverdata/snd/jump.ogg
posted Sat 24 Sep 2005 in /software | link
Alight
posted Tue 13 Sep 2005 in /photo | link
bazaar-ng 0.0.7; into Mandriva Cooker; plans for next release
We released bzr 0.0.7, which has several nice improvements, particularly to merge handling.
Michael Sherer put builds of bazaar-ng into Mandriva Cooker, their unstable development system.
Aaron started on a tool to display bazaar-ng branch histories as graphs, using dot. Still early days but could be fun.
A few more people have come across from working on the Arch-based Bazaar code. Robert Collins has a great intuitive grasp of OOP patterns and test-driven development and I'm very happy to have his help. James Blackwell, who was previously the GNU Arch release manager, is working on the wiki.
In our next release we plan to change to weave-based storage, which will be much more compact and also allow smarter merges. We've had code for this for a while but not turned it on because of working on the UI and framework, but the time has come.
posted Fri 2 Sep 2005 in /software/vc/bzr | link
Archives 2008: Apr Feb 2007: Jul May Feb Jan 2006: Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun Jan 2005: Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Jan 2004: Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Jan 2003: Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May
Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Martin Pool.