Josef “Jeff” Sipek

Whee! This weekend happened to be filled with coding.

First, I realized that it’s been 15 months since the last HVF release. I looked at the list of commits since then, and it was a sizable enough list to warrant a new release. Since there wasn’t a whole lot “Oh my! Must have!” it ended up being just another release candidate.

Once released, I looked around my patch directories to see what else I should hack at. The installer patch caught my eye.

I had a branch for the DASD loader work for a while — and the loader is complete. On the same branch, I had uncommitted code to implement a simple installer program. I started working on it almost a year ago (at least that’s what I gather from the bug report:  146), but I kept all the code uncommitted. I did some simple cleanup, and committed the work-in-progress code. Then, over the next few hours, I managed to get a very large portion of it done. The last piece that needs to be implemented is the EDF handling. That is, the code that lets HVF use  CMS file system for config files, etc.

In other news, I ran Doxygen on the HVF codebase. The output wasn’t as impressive as I hoped it would be. Part of it is probably because there are way too many functions that aren’t documented  76. This would be a good starter project for anyone looking to start hacking on HVF. Since I’m on the topic of looking for help, I realized that the HVF website is awful and could use some help — both look & feel as well content.

Lastly, I’d like to post a link here to the HVF Ohloh page.