Been a good week. I crossed 50 commits to Beagle. They’re all pretty modest contributions, but it’s been awesome fun.

In addition, pkgcore 0.4.4 has my patch to support HTTP proxies for rsync. This was a fun patch to write, small as it is. The code is beautiful, and Brian Harring (ferringb) and Patrick Lauer (bonsaikitten) walked me through a lot of it. Good stuff!

I’ve also been working on splitting the gnome-python* ebuilds to make the dependency trees for packages that use these bindings a lot saner. This has been longer and more painstaking that intended. It wouldn’t even have happened if Jim Ramsay (lack) hadn’t made an excellent start with the gnome-python-desktop split, since all subsequent work was based on that. Hope this is useful to someone, though. :-)

As I said, a good week.

http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_143021.xml
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_143221.xml

[PMS is, from what I gather, a spec detailing the minimum portage API required to support the current ebuild ebuild tree]

Yet, hope springs eternal.

Portage 2.1_pre1 is in portage and marked ~x86. Improvements include a revamped cache (why am I not seeing the difference), elog to help track einfo/ewarn/eerror messages better. Wheee!

And if you haven't already, emerge ferringb's awesome confcache for caching the autoconf stuff.

Does anybody know a good place to get high-quality CS GATE practise papers?