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rename noodil.py => kit_library/hello.py (71%)
mode change 100755 => 100644
rewrite noodil.py (95%)
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What I had here was one file, noodil.py, which was an initial piece of executable test code. Moving on a bit, I wanted to make the main executable a wrapper that could run other code, with the initial test code becoming a hello.py demo script. The way I accomplished this was to copy noodil.py to kit_library/hello.py, remove the few startup/teardown lines, and then in the noodil.py file, leave essentially JUST those startup/teardown lines. A little bit of extra editing was done to each file, of course.

Anyway, that “rename (71%) and rewrite (95%)” is a pretty good summary of what happened. The mode change too, is there indicating that I copied the file, but that it’s no longer executable in its new location (actually I saved a second copy from my editor). It’s probably nothing much more than a per-line checksum, but this stuff really does give an impression of git understanding and tracking my work at a high-level. I’m impressed

For what it’s worth, Noodil is my fledgling python project to bring a combination of Unix pipes, Automator, Powershell, and other tools to the GUI in a new way. More on that later, when I have something useful to demonstrate — other than the unquestionably useful Hello World, of course

So I’ve just posted SVGSlice 0.15 to launchpad. Mostly it just updates the code to work with a SAX namespace change (sax.saxutils.DefaultHandler -> sax.handler.ContentHandler), and does a few other small anti-bitrot cleanups. Unfortunately there’s a bug in Jaunty’s inkscape (Inkscape is throwing assertions about quarks) right now, so SVGSlice doesn’t work as a plugin with that, but I’ve added a test script which demonstrates it working in command-line mode at least.

It’s nice to be releasing stuff again