Clerical Rigor

Category: CLI

  • OMG Maven 3.0.4 on stretch

    “Why?”, you might ask, would one want to run something other than the most recent version of Maven on the very newest and fangledest breed of the linux distribution we have all loved for so long. “Because!”, I might answer, I’m trying to get the nexus-apt-plugin working on nexus.fd.io, and the version of nexus we’re…

  • GSoC 2010

    Earlier this month, I applied to the Mono Project (and the University of Washington, and Ubuntu, and Debian, and The Perl Foundation) requesting a mentor to get Perl6 hosted on the DLR. Last Tuesday, Miguel contacted me and asked that I chat with Michael Hutchinson about possibly taking up a different project. It seems that…

  • Locale configuration post-Intrepid

    I was reminded this morning after a bit of chatter on #debian-cli that my previous write-up on setting one’s locale on Ubuntu is out-of-date. Instead of running dpkg-reconfigure locales and selecting your locale, the new incantation is as follows: Magic $ sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 Environment Variables You’ll also want to set some environment variables. Put…

  • dlr-languages package passes another hurdle

    It looks like the upload of the Iron* languages to Debian is imminent. We’ve gotten the debian/watch file downloading a tarball of the git tag we’ve chosen for this release. This was the last bit meebey needed in order to present it to the maintainer of ironpython in lenny. He has agreed to let the…

  • Randal Schwartz interviews Michael Foord about IronPython

    The FLOSS Weekly folks (including my homie, Randal) just published this week’s interview. It is with Michael Foord, who I just met a couple weeks ago. He published a book about IronPython. He mentions Mono, the DLR and IronRuby, too ;)

  • Looking to get Iron* and the DLR into RedHat

    I sent an email to the Fedora Legal list asking whether they will accept software released under the MS-PL license. My friend and former colleague, Brett Lentz mentioned that he was concerned that the Fedora folks might not accept software released under the MS-PL. So I asked. I also bcc’d a certain troll on said…

  • dlr-languages packaging

    An update on recent changes to the IronRuby packaging. We’ve changed the name of the source package because We’re packaging IronPython as well as IronRuby (thanks doko!) I’ve added the wrapper scripts (irake, igem, etc.). Maybe this is showing that I’m not a heavy user… After building meebey’s packages and installing them: $ cat /etc/debian_version…

  • IronRuby .deb is looking better

    cjac@dev0:/usr/src/git/alioth$ sudo dpkg -i ironruby-cil_0.9.0+dfsg_all.deb Selecting previously deselected package ironruby-cil. (Reading database … 67034 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking ironruby-cil (from ironruby-cil_0.9.0+dfsg_all.deb) … Setting up ironruby-cil (0.9.0+dfsg) … cjac@dev0:/usr/src/git/alioth$ which ir /usr/bin/ir cjac@dev0:/usr/src/git/alioth$ ir IronRuby 0.9.0.0 on Mono 2.4.2.3 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. >>> exit

  • Hey, look! debian/control and friends are on Alioth!

    http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-cli-libs/packages/ironruby.git;a=tree;f=debian;h=c5642e8a4a4aa3b5e15af5f607a1604f3169bd47;hb=449af4392c1fbddacee4f52b9998e23e674a7434 *whew* now I won’t have to worry about losing (or misplacing) my changes. Thanks meebey and #debian-cli for your help. Now to tune those files a bit and get something that actually does what users expect ;)

  • GTK+ OpenGL work

    There’s an opening at Canonical that I’d like to take after the current contract is up. It’s an opening for a OpenGL dev on the Ubuntu desktop team. Don’t get me wrong; I enjoy working with my current group quite a bit. We’re building a pretty neat tool. However, building OpenGL into the GNOME desktop…