Mon 12 Jan 2004 15:32:01 GMT

I did an amazing amount of bureaucratic paper pushing today. It was mildly astounding. Luckily, I got enough done where I might be able to do real work tomorrow. We’ll see. New motherboard fixed the backup server hiccups. Always happy to see that happen.

Plan on working metadata some more tonight. Fix up some exceptions, load in the __init__.py to make it act like a module and then see if I want to move it all around. I’m kinda lost for names right now. At the moment it’s in a dir called ‘import’ b/c that’s what it does, it imports the metadata from the xml into memory. However I think:

import packageSack from import

is going to cause confusion :).

maybe pkgMD or some such nonsense.

the other option is to make this one module of a series of modules for something like and rpmutils module.

I should ask the rpm-python list, maybe they have a suggestion.

sushi or salad tonight.

either way yummy.

Mon 12 Jan 2004 22:16:32 GMT

I’ve been following along in planet.gnome.org for a little while now. It’s interesting to read some of the thoughts people put in there. Not just gnome-related but anything related. It’s curious to see how many of them are very deeply involved in what they do. Heartening, in fact.

I didn’t get much work done tonight. Spent a lot of time talking about issues with linux distibutions and things that duke needs versus things that universities need in general versus what is available out there. It’s kinda frustrating. I sorta wish there was a big base distro that everyone could pull from to build up what they need. I know that’s silly but it’d be nice if the majorplayers would work on a common, free, base. It’d be like fedora but between two big groups for a base of an os.

Alas I think business interest would preclude either from giving much ground even though both companies would benefit from not having to do the same work.

Well that’s enough for tonight.