Re: [xsrcg-devel] objective-c, the project, design, updates

[Jesse <jwa...@sp...>]

cool.  i'm signed onto freenode most of the time.  i'm in #gnustep and
#xsrcg right now.  i notice that you're idling in there as well =).

that's great that you use FreeBSD as well.  i was worried that the
GNU/Linux/*BSD support might be an afterthought.  it's definitely
doable, and not difficult.

one of the first design topics i want to discuss is file formats.  not
necessarily for the CharacterFiles yet, but for the data files that feed
SR data into the program.  we could *possibly* just use property lists.
or we could use xml (or whatever you guys were thinking previously).  i
was messing with propertylists a little bit today, and there are
built-in class methods to read and write them to files (from<->to
NSDictionarys and NSArrays).  quite nice.  if we can figure out a file
format pretty early on, it would allow us to mess around with stuff a
little further.  for example, i could write a quick program that helps
to populate the SR database from user input and/or flat files.

i am really hurting for a good SRCG, too =).  that brings me to a
question:  have either of you gotten the windows srcg to work under
wine?  i really *hate* booting to windows because i've always got
something going on (program compiling, video encoding).  i would love to
get it running in wine.  the bump that i hit is in the INSTALL!  it
seems to install, and then tells me it can't create the program group,
and then it proceeds to UNINSTALL.  it's completely ridiculous.  i was
able to get the files installed once, but then they didn't work because
they were missing OCXs, which i assume should have been installed by the
INSTALL program.  also, getting this program working might help in our
development.  i don't particularly care for the program (used it once in
windows on a friend's machine), but it serves as our only example, and
could be helpful.

let me know if either of you have had any luck in that area.  i'm
running wine 20040408.

also, could one of you get me on the sf project?  my sf username is
'omie'.

-jesse
jwa...@sp...

On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 00:53 -0500, Adam Brown wrote:
> On Jun 14, 2004, at 11:35 PM, Jesse wrote:
> 
> > also, do you primarily use/develop linux or Mac OS X?  do you have both
> > platforms available?  i'll be buying a Mac as soon as i am in a more
> > comfortable financial situation to test some cross-platform
> > capabilities.  i've always wanted one anyway =).
> >
> 
> Hah, I never expected anyone would be buying a mac because of this 
> project. It's already a success as far as concerned. Time to move on. 
> :-P
> 
> > i primarily use linux, if you didn't know.  and also FreeBSD, but they
> > are virtually equivalent for our purposes.  but i'll be testing on
> > FreeBSD anyway.
> >
> 
> Just to clarify for myself here, I'm also a FreeBSD user, and was 
> almost exclusively prior to getting my powerbook and pretty much 
> abandoning all other computers I own. Although, I do have a FreeBSD 
> machine that's in serious need of some love that I can use to test 
> anything on as well. I think both of us using FreeBSD will be a Good 
> Thing.
> 
> > To answer the two primary questions, I'm also in GMT-5 (Atlanta, GA
> > US/Eastern).  also, i think freenode is the best network to use.  it is
> > a development (primarily GNU/GPL stuff) network, and it already hosts
> > such channels as #gnustep and others.  it is also the one that i am 
> > most
> > frequently using.  of course, i could handle undernet, but i don't 
> > think
> > we need the fluff of a generic network.  i encourage you guys to
> > lurk/idle in #gnustep as well.
> >
> 
> Alrighty, I've heard some good things about freenode, and since nothing 
> smart ever happens on undernet, I've moved on over. Feel free to log in 
> to #xsrcg on freenode then when you're one, perhaps we can 
> inadvertantly meet up if we don't get anything set up.
> 
> BTW, I'm officially in the US/Central timezone, which is normally 
> GMT-6, except when we're on daylight savings time. So, as far as I know 
> I'm still going to be an hour behind you, since I'm fairly sure Georgia 
> is under Daylight savings time. I hate daylight savings time, it's such 
> an annoyance.
> 
> Anyways, here's to hoping we can all get together on irc in the near 
> future.
> 
> --
> Adam Brown
> co...@di...
> 
> 
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