Breaking news: breakpoints now exist in the debugger. There’s no indication that they exist until execution reaches them unless you look in the console window , but they’re there! Next up: differentiating between active line, current line, and line + breakpoint in the robot editor syntax highlighting. Apart from that, the debugger is now fairly [...]
Posted on January 29th, 2010 by Josh Matthews
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Replace all of the contributor’s code in one large commit Use none of the original code in the new revision Include thousands of lines of code churn in addition to the multi-thousand line rewrite in the commit Use a commit message like “more changes” Do all of the above with no advance notice whatsoever Seriously. [...]
Posted on January 28th, 2010 by Josh Matthews
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Since Mozilla has embraced mercurial, and especially patch queues, with open arms, I get to deal with rebasing patches frequently. There are two ways this can happen – either you set up an external merge tool like meld to handle each conflict, or the rejected changes are dumped in a filename.ext.rej in the same directory [...]
Posted on January 27th, 2010 by Josh Matthews
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I’m interested in playing around with Dehydra to see whether I can create a pre-review checker, hopefully to lessen the amount of nits that inevitably crop up in any patch submitted on Bugzilla. However, as always, the immediate hurdle is acquiring and building the software involved. Making dehydra from scratch involves building gcc 4.3.x, SpiderMonkey [...]
Posted on January 27th, 2010 by Josh Matthews
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I’m working my way through building Rosegarden from SVN on Fedora 12, and thought I would jot down my settings for posterity. My default QTDIR was incorrect for Qt4 (/usr/lib/qt-3.3), which made configure fail. Following a patch in a gentoo bug for the ebuild package, I ran configure with the following inscrutable command line:./configure –prefix=/usr/local [...]
Posted on January 15th, 2010 by Josh Matthews
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It’s been about a year and a half since I last touched on the idea of a Megazeux debugger, and that is far too long! I’ve recently begun an internship with Mozilla working on the Electrolysis project, which is a continuation of the work I’ve been doing in a volunteer capacity for the past few [...]
Posted on January 14th, 2010 by Josh Matthews
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CS student by day. Code vigilante by night. No mercy. No surrender.
