SPARC, Python, Jamboree
What a fun day. Played with Jamboree for a minute, which passes our medium-sized music archive test (7gig of music over NFS). It indexed the lot in a minute, where with Rhythmbox builds I generally did it in pieces, or over lunch. Send a massive list of requests to Johan, and am looking forward to the new RhythmDB work Colin Walters' has done, to compare.
Python is fun. I'd forgotten a lot of it but in my mission to write a tool to compare trees of supposedly identical Java interfaces, I've ended up with a hash of hashes, where some of the elements in the sub-hashes are actually lists of hashes. The children in this chaotic data structure are function prototypes, and I have a feeling these will be classes soon.
I interrupt your reading pleasure for this side note: my train home and the current time of dusk is perfectly suited to lovely going-home sunsets. Tonight is another lovely one, but it will never beat last Wednesday's deep orange through to purple clouds, reflected in the lake at Broxbourne. Resuming normal programming.
Also got to play with our Debian/SPARC box again. At some point in the past 64-bit gcc started to work, but after some testing it turned out that something was up. gcc -o test test.c produced a 64-bit binary, but ./test said it wasn't a valid binary. After a quick chat with Ben Collins, it turns out that the kernel needs updating: the userspace tools detect that I can run 64-bit processes, but the kernel is was 32-bit only. A quick update and reboot later, and I'm running 64-bit "Hello, World!". What an overkill. Still have the problem that gcc builds 64-bit by default, whereas g++ builds 32-bit...
So thanks for dispelling that notion, though both 'Jamboroo' and 'Jamberoo' are pretty cool sounding and would probably have made it onto my favourite word list if they were real nonsense words rather than mere typo/thinko's.
