[Chicken-users] Some eggs I'd like to add to svn

[Matt Welland]

Hi,

I have a few small apps which I'd like to add to svn if there are no 
objections. Note: I've no idea what to call these things so suggestions for 
better names are welcome.

1. refdb. Keep a spreadsheet in a set of flat files which are branch and merge 
friendly (e.g. in tools like git and fossil). Formatting is preserved. Data is 
treated as a three level dictionary array <sheet><row><col> so row and column 
labels in the spreadsheet must be unique. Refdb has only been tested with 
gnumeric.

2. histstore. Easily capture your commandline history into a sqlite3 database. 
This is very handy for those of us working with engineering design tools and 
such like where long, complicated command lines are a daily annoyance.

3. mfind. A tool for storing a directory tree in an sqlite3 database for easy 
searching. Mostly handy in environments where locate is either not set up or 
cannot be set up centrally for security reasons.

4. timesnitch. A strange tool for measuring what you do with your time. It 
randomly pops up a dialog where you enter what you were doing and provides a 
report of where your time is going based on some simple statistics. The method 
is similar to measuring the area of a closed curve on a piece of paper by 
randomly dotting the paper, counting the dots inside the curve, dividing by the 
total number of dots on the paper and then multiplying by the area of the 
paper. Although it can be slightly irritating :) timesnitch is fun to use for a 
few days. It is surprisingly accurate and for me at least it has revealed some 
interesting insights into how I spend my time, particularly at the office.

5. margs. A *very* simplistic command line argument parser. I have never 
acclimatized to the existing arg processors and I use this one a lot. Making it 
into an egg is mostly for my personal convenience :) 

I think I've mentioned my interest in putting these out as eggs in the past but 
I didn't follow though at the time. Refdb and histore are quite popular at work 
and I'd like to ensure they are readily available and easy to install.

To set these up I just create and populate the necessary directories in svn and 
add entries to egg-locations, correct? I could create fossils for these and 
register them but that seems like more hassle than it is worth. Does it matter 
to anyone which option I choose, fossil or svn? If I go the fossil route can I 
keep multiple eggs in a single fossil?

Lastly, these projects are all a little rough, (I'm an analog design engineer, 
not a programmer!) but comments and feedback are greatly appreciated.
-- 
Matt Welland <address@hidden>