2005 August 24

The other day I found my old N64 and hooked it up and started playing Super Mario 64 again for the first time in awhile. I love this game if only because it proves that a game can be fun without necessarily having to be violent or mature-themed. I suppose the recent Game Cube releases from Nintendo haven’t helped that impression any though, especially the quite bad Star Fox Assault. I couldn’t even make it past the first level of that game before getting sick of the characters with the pre-pubescent voices.

In other news, kdesvn-build has seen a few bugfixes already since the 0.97.4 release. Expect 0.97.5 and 0.98.1 (which builds KDE 4 by default) in a couple of days. This will be good news for the KDE Quality: Step by Step Building Guide, whose layout was up until recently quite horrid due to kdesvn-build not supporting line continuation characters, causing horizontal scroll bars to appear because of the sample configuration listing. 0.97.5 and 0.98.1 will both support the line continuation character and the sample configuration files have been accordingly updated.

Dirk has suggested that I work on the release script used by the KDE server infrastructure, which currently produces the nightly code snapshots, in order to also produce nightly Subversion checkouts in a convienient tarball form. There are a few from last week still up at the kdesvn-build website which I had manually generated. The nice thing about the tarballs is that it enables one to perform a KDE checkout without all the extra server load, which makes things quicker for both sides.

Once some form of snapshot updating is merged I want to work on having kdesvn-build try to download a tarball first before doing a checkout, since if that is possible I just saved anonsvn.kde.org a ton of CPU and IO load, and made it quicker for the user as well.

Finally, over the weekend I made a few bugfixes to the JuK Cover Manager code. You should hopefully notice snappier track changes for tracks that have large covers, and setting the cover of more than one track is also much quicker now.

Well, that’s it for now. Time to eat dinner.