What I did on vacation

Despite the fact that it rained almost every day on our vacation, causing me to spend much time indoors, I did not end up getting all that much done on the Zuzu project. I mostly did some refactoring on classes in the REMOTE package in order to support accommodating remote test servers with different process configurations, i.e. different Curl API, debuggability, or even platform. My goal is for the test driver application to be able to dispatch to test servers with a variety of configurations so that developers can test multiple configurations from a common front-end.

I definitely missed being able to connect to the source repository, since it forced me to devise a manual system for doing check ins. Subversion does maintain local state, so you can at least track what files you have changed from the last time you committed your sandbox, but there is no facility to track individual changes while offline. I believe that I could have installed SVK and used it to mirror my repository, but it seemed like it would have been too much effort to set up, so I didn't try. Instead, I just created numbered folders for each discrete change, and copied any changed files when otherwise I would have submitted to the repository. When I got home, I reverted by sandbox, and then copied the contents of the numbered folders back into the sandbox and submitted the changes one at a time. All that file copying did slow me down a bit, and I will revisit the issue of doing offline checkins before I go on another long vacation.