Finally, Distorm3 is progressing. With heaps of work done by Gil, and some more by me, the project will soon be on its feet. One thing that really gave us a feeling of progress, is setting up Subversion. We thought of setting our own, but finally decided on using Assembla, after a good friend recommended it. There are other options, but Assembla seems really good, although it does have its drawbacks. (Your code goes in clear-text for one).
When I was using windows I worked with TortoiseSVN, but now on my Ubuntu, I’m using RapidSVN, with meld as my diff tool. Although Rapid is cool, I liked Tortoise better. It was faster, much more intuitive, and I liked the commit window better. It gave me a choice on what to commit, and I could (from the commit window) run a diff on each file I changed, and using the diff write a short comment on my changes in the commit comment. While RapidSVN obviously also allows for commit comments, I have to do all the work beforehand. It’s a bit more cumbersome.
Another thing – I’m working on unit-testing using the excellent unittest module. Using coverage.py along with the testing makes my code so much better, and me so much happier. Since we have a little bit of c-code generation, one of the (a little bit hackish) tests I wrote was running gcc on some sample output, and making sure there were no errors or warnings. Fun. One of my next todos is compiling a few small executables, and making sure that they run without errors, all from within the unit-testing of the code generation module.
All in all, it’s good to finally be working organized.
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