uhm, this will be a long post, but i'll try to keep it short

a few words about fop. we write our documentation in asciidoc. asciidoc is plain text with a very simple markup, asciidoc can convert this to docbook. then docbook-xsl can convert this to .fo, finally fop can convert .fo to .pdf.

my problem with fop is that it's written in java and we just used the upstream binary. this is primarily a security problem.

so, about one and a half months ago got the crazy idea to compile fop from source. of course the correct way to do this is to package first the depends. this is really a avalanche, becase we didn't have too much generic java libs packaged, so i had to package many. namely:

jflex, piccolo, gnu.regexp, jarjar, jmock, qdox, easymock, hamcrest, iso-relax, relaxngdatatype, xsdlib, msv, xpp3, xpp2, gnu-crypto, apache-log4j, xmldb-api, ws-jaxme, dom4j, jdom, icu4j, jaxp, jaxp, xom, jaxen, rhino, batik, servletapi, jaf, gnuinetlib, gnumail, avalon-logkit, avalon-framework, commons-logging, commons-io and xmlgraphics-commons.

hm. that's 36. horrible

the nice thing is that all these (except xmlgraphics-commons because classpath still lacks jpeg support) are compiled with the ecj/gcj toolchain, without any sun blob.

the other benefits are:

• a native fop binary:

$ file /usr/bin/fop
/usr/bin/fop: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

yay!

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ok, this post will be a big generic, but it seems this is still totally new to some people. so, the Message-ID header in an email is ideally unique and you can easily use it to refer to an email in an other discussion.

in this post i want to deal with 3 issues:

first, how to display it in your mail client. ok, this depends on your mue, in mutt, you need to add

unignore message-id

to your muttrc.

second, if you want to search for a message-id in a folder, that's your mua's task as well. in mutt, you can do it by for example

~i 200804281829.11866.henrikau@orakel.ntnu.no

the third trick isn't mua-specific. if you want to link the message, and the list is indexed by gmane, then you can just type

http://mid.gmane.org/200804281829.11866.henrikau@orakel.ntnu.no

and it'll redirect to

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/80566

ok, that's all for today

i recently packaged source-highlight, and asciidoc can nicely use it. an example page (example codes using pacman-g2 bindings in 4 different languages) available here. yay!

a few days ago i wanted to use ungreedy regexs in javascript. first, let's see what an ungreedy regex is. look at the following example:

>>> "<p>foo</p><p>bar</p>".replace(/<p>f.*<\/p>/, '')
""

this is greedy. you want to get something like:

"<p>bar</p>"

right?

that would be ungreedy. in some other languages, there is a flag for this (php has 'U'), but in javascript, you need an other trick:

>>> "<p>foo</p><p>bar</p>".replace(/<p>f.*?<\/p>/, '')
"<p>bar</p>"

and yes, that's what we wanted. also it works for .+?, and so on.

ah and as a side note, it seems '.' does not match newlines, so you'll have to work around it like:

>>> "<p>foo\nbar</p><p>baz</p>".replace(/<p>f[\s\S]*?<\/p>/, '')
"<p>baz</p>"

ok, this is now official, i got paid for working on the C rewrite of git-merge during the summer

just for fun, i collected some other projects with Hungarian students: samba, e17, freebsd, genmapp, xorg, drupal.

Here's the new opera 9.50 snapshot. This time i've used build 1904 You can find the fpms here: http://frugalware.org/~voroskoi/fpm/current/

I'll create fpms for x86_64 later.

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