[cig-commits] r5046 - in cs/pythia/trunk: . pythia

[leif at geodynamics.org]

Author: leif
Date: 2006-10-15 01:38:56 -0700 (Sun, 15 Oct 2006)
New Revision: 5046

Removed:
   cs/pythia/trunk/pythia/merlin/
Modified:
   cs/pythia/trunk/setup.py
Log:
"No, I've changed my mind again..."

(I must learn to write down everything.  My brain cannot be trusted to
remember even the most basic ideas from a brainstorm...  Fortunately,
I've now remembered what I was going to do with merlin...)

Nuked 'merlin'.  It will not be a part of CIG's Pythia distro.  I
played with it again... Over a year after I first looked at it, I
confirmed that merlin is as I remembered it: in Pythia 0.8, at least,
it is not even what would you call a 'prototype'.  It is a sketch.  A
nice sketch: charcoal pencil on Strathmore paper perhaps; with some
humorously creative class and method names... but nonetheless, just a
sketch.

Merlin will be a separate project outside the Pythia namespace.
Unlike with Pythia (where I see myself merely as a packager), I will
claim authorship of merlin, taking full credit/blame/responsibility
for it.

I hope mga won't be upset that I am stealing the name 'merlin'.  I do
feel as though I have at least some right to it, though.  One of my
earliest programming experiences was writing 65C02 (and later, 65C816)
machine code on an Apple II using the Merlin 8/16 assembler.  Merlin's
(text-mode) editor rocked.  Don't even talk to me about ORCA/M :-)
Plus, I read _The Once and Future King_ as a kid. :-)

And besides, mga did want me to work on merlin when I started here.
So now, one year later -- after some uncomfortable experiences writing
and debugging Autoconf macros -- here I am, starting work on merlin!
He won't agree with my implementation, though.  (The only thing my
merlin will share with pythia/merlin is the name.)  I mean, we all
know mga doesn't like eggs.

---
"This is the last song I will ever sing [crowd cheers]
 No, I've changed my mind again [crowd groans]
 Good night, and thank you."

--Morrissey


Modified: cs/pythia/trunk/setup.py
===================================================================
--- cs/pythia/trunk/setup.py	2006-10-15 08:24:25 UTC (rev 5045)
+++ cs/pythia/trunk/setup.py	2006-10-15 08:38:56 UTC (rev 5046)
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
     'blade':    [],
     'elc':      [],
     'journal':  [],
-    'merlin':   [],
     'mpi':      [],
     'opal':     [],
     'pulse':    [],