Yeah, it’s not front-page worthy, so I dumped it here.

I’ve updated Gallery to b27. They’ve finally got CSS integrated with different things regarding each subalbum, but it’s still a bit odd, and slightly broken when dealing with the root. Thankfully, this bug doesn’t require any more editing of the view_*.php files, which I’ve been doing since the 1.2.x days. Woohoo.

The ‘software’ section of the site has always been ‘slightly odd’. Allow me to elaborate: When porting software, I attempt to keep as close to the original author’s distribution as possible – If someone uses funky Makefiles, I’ll try to patch them, rather than creating my own (if feasable – I don’t expect people to install BSD Make and the headers to work with a simple port). This trickles down to the naming convention (10xpatch-1.3.27 ), and compression – using ‘zip’ to compress PaintBBS and QuickBlog, as that’s what the distribution used. For my own tools, I use StuffIt, should I be distributing binaries that are easily MacOS ‘drag and drop’, DMGs, packages, or tarballs, et al.

I’m rethinking this – somewhat. Many of my unix ports would be made ‘harder’ to contend with, if they were in DMGs, so I don’t want to do that. Source code, well, all you need, really, is to gzip a diff, and you’re done. Still, I don’t like how ‘messy’ everything currently looks just for the name of lackluster compatibility – Should I start distributing diffs and binaries, only?