[00:03] <blr> cjwatson: that looks fun. Last sci-fi novel I read was Delany's Dhalgren, which was rather bizarre.
[00:08] <cjwatson> reading the plot summary, reminds me of a cross between Michael Moorcock and Philip K. Dick ...
[00:08] <blr> fond of both of those writers, so imagine I might like it in that case.
[00:08] <cjwatson> Dhalgren, I mean
[00:08] <blr> oh right
[00:08] <cjwatson> my wife remarks that Moorcock is best read at the speed he wrote it
[00:09] <cjwatson> I'm fairly sure Dick is best read with the same drug levels
[00:09] <cjwatson> still have never really understood the last couple of chapters of "The Game-Players of Titan" :)
[00:10] <cjwatson> Moriarty is hard SF, perhaps closest to Egan of things I've read at all recently although much more character-focused
[00:10] <blr> I'm not certain I can compare Dhalgren to anything I've read, maybe Kafka's The Castle
[00:11] <wgrant> Maybe I need to start reading sci-fi.
[00:12] <blr> cjwatson: hah right, he was fully cracked by the time he was writing Valis, which is possibly his most interesting consequently
[00:13] <blr> that was the point in his life when he was certain god was beaming a stream of gnostic data directly into his head.
[00:13] <cjwatson> That sounds appropriately Dickian
[00:21] <cjwatson> wgrant: I'm sure we can come up with a decent list of recommendations :)
[00:34] <wgrant> cjwatson: Thta would be lovely. I haven't read much in a good many years :/
[02:09] <wgrant> cjwatson: Ah, you can fortunately avoid that currval. Will mention it when I do the full review.
[02:34] <cjwatson> wgrant: Interesting, OK.  (And a bit longer than my earlier guess suggested, sorry!)
[02:54] <wgrant> cjwatson: Hey, it's more than half tests. Can't complain about that.
[22:14] <blr> there are some weirdly awkward things in pygit2, create_commit returns an oid sha rather than a commit object.
[23:34] <wgrant> blr: Do you have a reasonable set of repo construction helpers now?
[23:38] <blr> wgrant: just about, although nothing overly sophisticated, just what the tests need atm.
[23:38] <blr> thinking about how it could be refactored to a library with a sensible interface
[23:38] <wgrant> Yup, that's the way to go.
[23:38] <wgrant> Possibly, yeah. We'll see how it works when we try to integrate it into Launchpad.
[23:39] <blr> wgrant: I need a side-project atm at any rate :)
[23:45] <wgrant> blr: We've neeeeearly got enough of the LP and API sides to start working on slices of features across the stack. And of course feel free to distract yourself with random LP bugfixes.