coding perl & other divertisome entertainment

Spent some time with DW's codebase tonight; just reading it. Most of it is ok. A bit denser and less commented than I prefer, but hey, that's code. At some point I'll be able to actually move on to the project I want to write: a journal exporter. exor674 and I are planning to collaborate on it. Should be a lot of fun.

I went a ways in the top level of code before I had a OSX 10.6 kernel panic. On reboot, I found a problem with GoogleUpdater that was clogging my system log. We will see if that solves the isse. I've used OSX for nearly 5 years now; first kernel panic.

After the kernel panic and subsequent removal of GoogleUpdater, I dug around and found a perl call graph generator I'd worked on a few months back & hacked on it. Currently it's styled for the code style *I* write, which is very structured and has a distinct form. (somewhat ada-esque I expect) The code also doesn't handle objects, packages, or unnamed subs. So I'll be working to bring it up to date; then possibly using it on the entire DW codebase to map out what statically calls who and where. Obviously dynamic calling is not going to be very analyzable in static analysis.

If anyone is interested in seeing the call graph generator code, I'd be happy to share - it's not up for public purview right now.

serving multiple hg repos on a mac

to get hgwebdir running on Snow Leopard

step 1: open /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
edit the "points to" directory to some directory of your choosing set up a cgi-bin rewrite for /hg mapping to /ome/directory/hgwebdir.cgi

step 2: add hgwebdir.cgi to /some/directory.

step 3: add the repos you want to add to the configuration file, see hgwebdir.cgi for more info

step 4: chmod 755 /some/directory

step 5: chmod -R 755 on your repo; also chmod 755 directories on up the directory tree.

-chown is probably not needed??

-web user is _www

also don't forget to start the webserver on system preferences.