TreeView X now on Google Code

TreeView X, the open source version of TreeView, has been slowly suffering bit rot as C++ compilers and operating systems change. Every so often I'd tweak the code to build on some Linux version or other, but this isn't something I've a lot of time for. Moreover, because of the hassle of rebuilding binaries and source tar balls the updated versions weren't uploaded to the TreeView X web site. Charles Plessy has been doing a nice job of keeping a Debian package working, but my own code wouldn't build on newer versions of Linux.

Today I managed to get my code to build on Fedora Core 13 using gcc 4.4.4 and the latest stable version of wxWidgets (2.8.11). The program runs OK, although there are some display glitches, and printing seems broken. However, my days of standalone application development are over, so I thought I should make the code accessible to anyone else who may find it of use. The code is now hosted on Google Code.

iPhylo on Google Code

Partly inspired by Pedro Beltra's post Open Science project on domain family expansion about using Google Code as a project management system, I've started to populate the iPhylo project. At this stage I'm uploading some scripts for parsing and extracting bibliographic records, and adding wiki pages describing how this is done, discussing different bibliographic identifiers, etc. The aim is to slowly document the background to all the harvesting and linking that I'm working on. Hence, the Google Code project will have documentation and data, not just code. The code for the web site won't go in for a while yet, it needs massive cleaning and tidying up.