Category Archives: DXR

Update on DXR work

As I wrote previously, I’ve switched to DXR work for the summer, and have been making some good progress over the past month.  I wanted to show you some of the things I’ve done, and where I’m going in the coming weeks. Much of my work thus far has been a backend rewrite.  This was long [...]
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Restarting DXR Development

It’s summer and with the change in weather, I’m going to take a holiday from much of my work on web media and audio/visual code for Mozilla.  I’ll still be working on the audio data api patch, but the rest of my work I’m going to put on ice for a few months so I [...]
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Running Treehydra and Dehydra scripts

Today I learned something new.  Last night I integrated callgraph into dxr (I’ll blog about that later, once I rebuild dxr indices for mozilla-central and comm-central), and that meant that I needed to be able to run a Treehydra script in addition to my existing Dehydra one.  Dehydra scripts are basically a subset of Treehydra [...]
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Failure as contribution

Since I’ve got some time to kill here while I wait for just about every piece of software I need on my box to rebuild, I thought I’d reflect on what I’ve been doing the past few evenings.  I want to try and show what I mean by “contribution” when I ask my students to [...]
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Catching up on DXR blogging

<@taras> you should blog that < andrew> you should blog more about that project My students have a first release due today by midnight, and all day I’ve been watching attachments go up on bugs and demos getting posted online.  It’s been really cool to watch how far many of them have gotten with their 0.1 release [...]
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