Development

之前zoomq同学说trac-dev版本很好用，不过我总觉得在如此重要的生产系统上玩CURRENT一类的东西是给自己找麻烦，可是trac的发行版本一直都没有出，直到前几天扫描PR，发现宋政隆同学已经提交了一个patch，于是直接升级了。

没听说过trac，专职做开发的同学请自觉面壁一分钟 :P

The patch is available at: http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/for_review/bsd_gzip/. Please note that this is considered experimental and it is preliminary for FreeBSD for now, while I think it is very mature code and has been available on NetBSD for years. Positive and negative feedbacks are all welcome.

最近一周FreeBSD发布了多个安全公告，其中有一个gzip的安全问题是Google的人发现的，由于gzip目前已经长期处于无人维护的状态，我认为是时候把这个程序杀掉了。(这次安全更新导致了某些文件无法解压缩)

今天看到ijliao长辈提到，根据Software Freedom Law Center的说法，明天GIF就是完全自由的了。

It turns out that just doing a substring “invalid” search within the XML DOM’s responseText is silly and I have replaced it with an explicit compare. This is still imperfect, though, but fairly bullet-proof as I added an “invalid” in recent blog which caused the RSS reader to consider the feed itself is invalid :-(

不知道为什么突然吵起来了……以前的NetBSD不是这样的。从邮件列表里面也看不出什么实际的线索，希望这次变动不会给NetBSD带来太不好的影响吧。

以前一直是装FreeBSD最小安装，因为感觉很多东西在服务器上根本用不到；又更有甚者，前几天甚至在考虑进一步精简系统，使其在服务器上安装尽可能少的文件（例如开发工具完全不安装）。结果今天发现了一个之前一直没有注意到的问题：game这个看似没用的distribution其实也还是蛮有用的，比如生成素数表，等等。

之前用Safari访问很多中文网页都有问题，今天端木同学帮忙看了一下，发现是默认语言顺序导致的问题。不过调整之后，Firefox又毛病了……不知道是否应该在里面装个FreeBSD，然后再到FreeBSD里面装个X？:P

less is a very popular command line tool that is distributed with a lot of *nix distributions. Thanks goes to David Wolfskill (our postmaster) who helped the test.

The current plan is to MFC less(1) before 6.2-RELEASE’s freeze, but because the date is near, we may want to change the plan.

Today Hiroki Sato has committed the long waited www/ cleanup mega-patch. Key features:

• Localized sgml, xmls and xslts are moved into <lang>/share/sgml/.
• Duplicated stuff between English and localized versions are eliminated as much as possible.
• Switched to use a custom FreeBSD DTD for HTML.