Julio Merino

Software artist. Writer aficionado. Open source enthusiast. Runner. Father of two.
Currently: Senior Software Engineer at Google, New York City.

  • Kyua: Weekly status report

    Created an RPM package for Lutok for inclusion in Fedora.Created a preliminary RPM spec for ATF for Fedora. Now in discussions with the FPC to figure out how to install the tests on a Fedora system, as /usr/tests may not be appropriate.No activity on Kyua itself though, unfortunately.

    February 7, 2012 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Kyua: Weekly status report

    This comes two days late... but anyway, I felt like posting it now instead of waiting until next Sunday/Monday. The activity past week focused mostly on implementing support for the require.memory test-case metadata property recently introduced into ATF. This was non-trivial due to the need to write some tricky Autoconf code to make this "slightly portable". Seriously: It's scary to see how hard it is to perform, in a portable manner, an operation as simple as "

    February 1, 2012 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Lutok 0.1 available

    A few months ago, I introduced the Lutok project, a simple C++ API for Lua. To recap: the major goal of this API, which does not mimic the Lua C API bit by bit, is to enforce correct coding practices on the client side. This is done by (ab)using the RAII programming pattern to automatically free resources when not needed and to ensure that the Lua stack is correctly managed. The library also adheres to common C++ programming idioms and exposes exceptions for error management and uses the pimpl idiom to completely hide the Lua C API from clients of Lutok (unless you use the c_gate backdoor!

    January 29, 2012 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Kyua: Weekly status report

    Released ATF 0.15 and imported it into NetBSD.Added support for integer/float printf-like modifiers to the utils::format module. These will be required to beautify size and time quantities in the reports and error messages.I spent way more time than I wanted on this. At first, I attempted to use std::snprintf to parse and process the format modifiers for integers and floats so that I could avoid implementing a custom parser for them.

    January 23, 2012 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Kyua: Weekly status report

    Finally some progress! Backported the require.memory changes in NetBSD to the ATF upstream code, and extended them to support OS X as well.Backported local pkgsrc patches to ATF into the upstream code.Started to prepare ATF 0.15 by doing test runs of NetBSD/i386 and NetBSD/amd64 and by building the code in various Linux distributions. Several build bugs fixed along the way.Spent a long while trying to figure out how the Fedora package maintainer procedure has changed since 3 years ago to create packages for ATF, Lutok and Kyua.

    January 15, 2012 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Kyua: Weekly status report

    It's that time of the week again (although delayed by over a day). Unfortunately, no progress either during past week. Being on semi-vacations doesn't leave much "free time"... However, I traveled back home yesterday and getting back to my daily routine should give some spare time!

    January 10, 2012 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

  • Kyua: Weekly status report

    Happy new year! No activity past week as I was completely away from the computer.

    January 3, 2012 · Continue reading (about 1 minute) · Comments

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