Tom Lord's Hackery

What's on Tom's Radar?

Things I'm currently paying the most attention to (at least as of when I updated this page (Tue Jan 11 12:31 2005).

GNU Arch

Arch 1.X

Is doing fine.

Arch 2.0

Is my focus right now.

It has it's own project blog where progress is discussed.

Right now, all of the hacking action is around a low-level component called a frob (aka the XL virtual machine

Work on this component now has an official schedule. It's supposed to take 3 weeks, beginning (let's say), now: Tue Jan 11 12:36 2005.

Due Date: Tue Feb 1 12:36 2005.

Arch Concerns

This radar used to have a list "arch issues" -- things that ought to be goals for the Arch project. That material has be revised and is now available as part of the tla 2.0 roadmap.

Pika Scheme

Still alive with cool developments impending .... Tue Jan 11 12:39 2005. See you in 3 days, at most.

Awiki

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