[03:47] <maxolasersquad> Is anyone around who can help me with packaging?
[03:47] <maxolasersquad> I'm working on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-app-review-board/+bug/905618
[03:47] <ubot2> Launchpad bug 905618 in ubuntu-app-review-board "Application Review: memory card game 0.1" [Undecided,New]
[04:46] <maxolasersquad> I got past the issue I was seeking assistance for.
[08:16] <noodles775> maxolasersquad: great - just shout if there are other issues - there are more people around now.
[09:25] <jml> Good morning.
[09:30] <jml> I wrote a little command line program in Go over the weekend.
[09:38] <noodles775> jml: was it a fun experience?
[09:43] <jml> noodles775: yeah, not too bad actually
[09:43] <jml> for this particular program, it's more verbose than Python
[09:44] <jml> but not much more. roughly four times faster, too.
[09:44] <jml> (although the C version I wrote is three times faster than that)
[09:45] <jml> Having to use the 'strings' package to do basic string ops makes me feel like old-school Python
[09:45] <jml> docs are good. compiler errors are good.
[09:47] <jml> #go-nuts were helpful if a little patronizing at first
[09:47] <jml> Go interfaces are cool
[09:47] <jml> but not as cool as Haskell type classes
[09:47] <jml> and I was surprised that it doesn't do type inference on function signatures.
[09:50] <noodles775> sounds like you've gotten a lot out of the experience!
[09:50] <jml> yeah.
[09:50] <jml> I didn't do anything with concurrency, which is a shame
[09:51] <jml> but from properly reading the docs it looks straightforward and nice.
[09:51] <noodles775> Yep, indeed.
[09:52] <jml> anyway, if someone held me at gunpoint and forced me to write something big in C++, Java & Go and my choice was made purely on which I preferred programming in, then I'd probably pick Go.
[09:53] <jml> although presumably this hypothetical gunman would be immune to the pain of lactic acid build up, as they would be holding the gun for quite some time.
[09:53] <noodles775> lol
[09:55] <jml> noodles775: done anything in Go?
[09:57] <noodles775> jml: I had a play around at a web-app, and found I missed django.forms-style input validation and cleaning for views, so did a proof-of-concept/learning project with https://launchpad.net/goforms
[09:57] <noodles775> But similar to you, it gets to use interfaces, but doesn't have any need for fun concurrency stuff.
[09:57] <jml> noodles775: better than me, I just did something that solves the SMH Target puzzle :)
[09:58]  * noodles775 wonders if the Sydney Morning Herald has Target sponsoring a puzzle, and looks it up
[09:58] <jml> noodles775: no, it's not the company
[09:59] <noodles775> Ah, 9-letter target?
[09:59] <jml> yeah
[11:29] <dpm> hi noodles775, there's a question in askubuntu I don't know too well how to answer. Could you or someone from the server team have a look at it? As I understand it, what he's trying to do is not possible (we don't support DRM), but perhaps there might be a workaround they can implement on their side - http://askubuntu.com/questions/88422/how-to-host-my-commercial-application-in-ubuntu-software-center
[11:32]  * noodles775 looks
[11:56] <noodles775> dpm: I've added an answer - but it's basically 'no' :(
[12:10] <dpm> noodles775, thanks! That's already really helpful, especially pointing him to the demo versions work
[13:32] <julian_> hey there. i've a question about the package to submit to myapps.developer.ubuntu.com. i've got a 32bit and a 64bit .tgz package of my app. which one should i upload?
[13:44] <jml> julian_: upload the 32 bit and make a note that you have a 64 bit version.
[13:44] <jml> julian_: These are binaries for commercial sale, right?
[13:44] <mvo> hey julian_ -  what jml said, or just put both into a tar file so that two packages can be build from it and add a note that both are included
[13:55] <julian_> hey yes commercial. thanks i did what mvo said
[13:55] <julian_> having two upload slots or note something about it on the upload site would be nice ;)
[17:56] <jml> james_w: can you please send through a written review of the description branch? I haven't got around to merging it yet, I have to head out, and I won't remember tomorrow morning.
[18:01]  * jml gone
[18:03] <james_w> jml, sure