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In these last few (official) weeks of Google Summer of Code I’m focusing on the meat of my project. This means that side features like the achievements, scoreboard etc will be ‘frozen’ as-is until after GSOC. I’m planning on rounding them out, just not yet. The main work will be on the builddrone working properly and testing/signing. A major but was in the camlistore python library, I’ve fixed it and will change how it works a little.

I wrote a haikuports standalone validator which can be used in an upcoming version of haikuports possibly or just for your own amusement on a simple bepfile. (Hint you could wrap this in a git-hook and then only allow a commit if your beps pass!) On the builddrone front I fixed a bunch of assumption-related bugs that came from not testing.

BONUS: WPA derived propaganda

Personal rant: my university examination session draws near and with it all credit tests as well. I'm doing my best in time management not to put any of my current tasks and projects into starvation, but exactly as Ryan wrote to me - it's not easy.

Going back to more Haiku-specific topics, last week I was mostly analyzing the .pkg format Be Inc. left us behind. After some tests, most crucial parts of it are clear to me now. I must say most of their design solutions for this particular chosen concept had logical and technical grounds. To tell the truth, when I started hacking on this format I thought to myself: “Good god, who did this to you?”. I was wrong. Well... it's a very interesting one nevertheless.