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Result: Hardcore Forking Action of Death!
Yes, this was a stupid idea, with inevitable bad consequences, but I wanted to know what would happen. Take-home message: Don't delete a GitHub repo other people have forked.
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You’ll need MacPorts, the mdbtools source, and a simple patch. Use macports to install glib2, libtool, and automake:
port install glib2 libtool automake
You can get the mdbtools source from CVS, via the instructions at the sourceforge site, and my patch here.
Alternatively, use a git repo I started because CVS makes baby Theanthropos cry:
git clone git://gitorious.org/mdbtools/mainline.git mdbtools
cd into the mdbtools directory and run autogen.sh Pass any configuration args to autogen.sh, and it will pass them along to configure. /usr/local is the default prefix. The options below set the install location, enable compilation of the mdb-sql tool, but not gmdb2, the Gnome MDB File Viewer and debugger.
./autogen.sh --prefix=/users/Matthew/local --enable-sql --disable-gmdb2 make make install
Assume that make and install work: you can test the results like so:
mdb-ver /path/to/thingy.mdb mdb-tables /path/to/thingy.mdb mdb-schema /path/to/thingy.mdb
Note to self: packages I had to install for "make all doc" to work for git 1.5.3.8.
$ history | grep install 36 sudo apt-get install curl 41 sudo apt-get install libcurl 49 sudo apt-get install tk8.4 53 sudo apt-get install cpio expat 55 sudo apt-get install zlib 61 sudo apt-get install build-essential 66 sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev 72 sudo apt-get install asciidoc 75 sudo apt-get install xmlto
From the Arc tutorial, line 372
arc> (is 'a 'a) t(for those who don't get the joke, don't worry, it wasn't that funny. Neither was Ayn Rand.
Installing the Arc language on Mac OS X is trivial, assuming you have the right version of MzScheme.
Arc requires MzScheme, version 352. The install instructions warn: “Don’t use the latest version. There is said to be some bug/feature in it that breaks Arc.” The version of mzscheme in MacPorts is 371, so we have to tweak the portfile, and the only historical versions of mzscheme I can find portfiles for are 201 and 360. There seem to have been some major build changes between 352 and 360, so I frankensteined the portfile for version 201. You can find my version here. I’m running 10.4.11 on my dev machine, and I haven’t tested anything else.
Thanks go to bitshaker.com for the instructions on setting up a local port repo.
mkdir /Users/Shared/dports/lang/mzscheme/opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf to look like this:
# To enable your local ports repository, uncomment and customize the # following line to point at your local dports directory # Example: file:///Users/landonf/misc/macports/dports # # To get macports from the macports rsync server use: # rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ file:///Users/Shared/dports rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/
/Users/Shared/dports/lang/mzscheme/Portfileportindex /Users/Shared/dports
port list mzscheme, you should have an entry for mzscheme @352sudo port install mzscheme @352
$ mzscheme Welcome to MzScheme version 352, Copyright (c) 2004-2006 PLT Scheme Inc. > (+ 1 2 ) 3 (exit) $
Download http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc0.tar and untar it somewhere useful on your system. ~/src/ perhaps?
$ tar -xv arc0.tar $ cd arc0 $ mzscheme -m -f as.scm Use (quit) to quit, (tl) to return here after an interrupt. arc> (+ 1 2) 3 arc> (quit)
http://arclanguage.org/install
Tables are the lists of html. The W3C doesn't like you to use tables to do more than display tabular data because then it's unclear what a table cell means. But this sort of ambiguity is not always an error.Zed Shaw:
I may never do another CSS only layout again. I’m starting to wonder how … we got sucked into that crap, especially if the only way to really get a good looking layout with CSS and div tags is with mountains of stylesheets, html, and sometimes some damn javascript.
I’m not kidding about the javascript. I’ve seen people desperately trying to force their square-peg 3 column layout through the CSS round hole resort to javascript tricks to force the columns in the right spots.…
It’s not gauche to do what’s easiest and nobody’s going run you out of Designer Town (population 100) with sharpened pitchforks and blazing torches.
Insincere apologies to Zed for the bowdlerization.
Arc, a long-awaited dialect of Lisp, is finally available to the public for testing. As the man says:
"Arc is still fluid and future releases are guaranteed to break all your code. In fact, it was mainly to aid the evolution of the language that we even released it."Graham has been influential in encouraging the curious to try out a lisp of one sort or another. Since I first read his articles about Common Lisp and began tracking the infuriatingly undocumented progress of Arc, several new lisps have appeared. Here is wealth, and may Arc enrichen us further.
