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15:00:40
drmeister
Yes! I found a way to smoothly regex replace amber input scripts, python code and common lisp code in a consistent way.
15:01:20
drmeister
I embed things like :%FOO% into whatever code and then use cppcre to regex-replace :%FOO% with whatever string I want.
15:02:03
drmeister
The ':' and uppercase lets me write the replacement rules with keyword symbols like :%foo% in Common Lisp
15:02:47
drmeister
No - but cppcre is what I'm using. The problem was dealing with amber scripts, python code, makefiles and common lisp code in a consistent way.
15:03:23
drmeister
So figuring out how to make the strings that get replaced work was the what took me a while.
15:15:26
kpoeck
drmeister: I made lots of little fixes for the ansi-tests, so I am piling up lots of little prs
15:20:05
drmeister
I can't tell you how much confidence this gives me. When I recently loaded (ql:quickload :plump) or (ql:quickload :cxml) and it just worked - you were the first person I thought of.
15:20:51
drmeister
We finished the prototype for the free-energy perturbation calculation in the last weeks.
15:21:29
drmeister
I've reached out to drug discovery company and they are excited and they are introducing me to more with big names.
15:21:46
kpoeck
If possible I would like a use cl-test-grid that seems to compile all of quicklisp and creates reports of failures
15:21:55
drmeister
What I'm promising them is an open source computational chemistry platform that will never go away and never stop working for them.
15:25:38
drmeister
If/when more resources open up on this end we can provide the computing power to do that.
15:27:13
drmeister
If we could (1) fix all of the bugs in clasp that break random quicklisp systems and (2) be confident that every quicklisp system builds with clasp - that would be tremendous.
15:28:49
drmeister
Certainly. But we can put those in a list and prioritize them and fix the ones we need going forward.
15:29:22
kpoeck
e.g. flexichain that seems include great part of cl-garbage, just without frgos fixes
16:21:03
drmeister
Well, you never tell me what those systems are running and so I can't set one up to test things. :-)
16:21:31
stassats
well, i can tell you the current system, cause it does resemble something you can get - fedora
16:22:59
drmeister
You run Fedora! Now I have your precise location on the map. Expect a bottle of cognac on your doorstep for all the help you have given me in the past.
16:24:02
drmeister
Well, I'll be upgrading soon. Clang 7 has all sorts of alluring new features. I've just been trying to focus on chemistry code.
16:34:54
drmeister
I have some higher priorities that are consuming my time until maybe summer - but the new JIT stuff in llvm7 is very alluring.