Down

My general mood is down. I'd like a "Personal Rant" category here...

I am now compiling for the last time the KDE CVS HEAD source. No, I don't intend to kill myself. It's just that I'll switch to svn as everybody else.

Speaking of which, I have some sort of paralysis feeling when thinking of the CVS-SVN switch. I'm in awe with respect to the brave people who undertook all the work needed. I just wish the best to them. And, most importantly, that, if there are problems, they don't declare themselves after many days of SVN usage, but rather in the first hours (which has, btw and unfortunately, a very low probability).

Back to my compile. It runs for more than 18 hours already. I postpone putting more memory in this machine (256M now, yeah I know... ) since more than a year already. The compilation has become a burden to such a point that I found myself avoiding to start development sessions because I knew I'd have to recompile and it would take many hours.

I'm not always down, though. Some 10 days ago, I had enough energy to undergo the learning of the basics of Ruby. Just so that I can give myself the tools for an eventual application development comeback, but using Korundum. Yeah, I know about PyKDE, but I really need to learn something new once in a (short) while.

What keeps my morale on down mostly, perhaps, is the fact that I realized recently that I accepted the role of speechless/powerless spectator on discussions like moving to SVN, configuration systems etc.

But hey, the spring is near. Maybe I manage to get myself a big kick in the backside. I promise to let all know then too ;-)