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[19:12:47 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> this is working quite nicely now
[19:14:38 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> Bosmon: What do you think the best approach for branches like this is?
[19:14:48 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> I imagine we actually want it to be part of the project repo
[19:15:17 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> I'm not quite sure what the question relates to....
[19:15:21 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> Can one make a pull request to a branch other than master?
[19:15:23 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> Oh, sorry
[19:15:25 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> Oh, I see
[19:15:44 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> I have this: https://github.com/colinbdclark/universal/tree/windows-xp-solutions-registry
[19:15:58 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> I guess we might like it to be a branch on the project repo, so that it's more visible
[19:16:21 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> Yes, it seems you can issue a pull request to a branch
[19:16:42 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> In github, via the "CHANGE COMMITS" button
[19:16:43 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests
[19:17:02 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> What is in this branch, morally?
[19:19:45 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> A solutions registry suited for demonstrating the GPII on Windows XP
[19:19:50 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> the more I think about this, I wonder where it should all go
[19:19:57 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> Really, I'd rather just fix the bugs in the system
[19:20:01 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> perhaps I'll leave it for now as-is
[19:20:11 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> walk Jim through the process of pulling changes from my fork
[19:20:54 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> Seems odd to have a branch just for a solutions repository
[19:21:05 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> It's the kind of thing I imagine we might have thousands of, in due course
[19:22:15 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> yes
[19:22:18 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> We just need to fix the real bugs
[19:22:21 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> which involve:
[19:22:27 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> 1. A sensible matchmaker
[19:22:42 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> 2. Platform-specific parameterizations for solutions registry entries
[19:23:00 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> I believe those are the only justifications for any of these branches I've been hacking around with
[19:23:06 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> ah, Bosmon
[19:23:07 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> one question
[19:23:10 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> because I am so clueless
[19:23:27 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> yura has some kind of parameterization for where preferences are sourced from
[19:23:34 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> locally or on the server
[19:23:39 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> perhaps it's an environment variable?
[19:23:47 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> which the Flow Manager reads?
[19:23:58 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> It's one of these weird things in express
[19:24:08 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> Which I believe ultimately resolves onto an environment variable, yes
[19:24:19 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> Another thing which we need to do something about in due course
[19:24:50 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> He does it with a that.server.configure call
[19:25:26 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> FlowManager, line 131
[19:26:28 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> I'm not sure what environment variable this gets resolved to
[19:26:39 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> I believe it is called NODE_ENV
[19:26:48 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> http://expressjs.com/guide.html
[19:26:59 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> oh bizarre
[19:27:00 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> ok
[19:27:10 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> Yes, pretty bizarre
[19:28:05 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> umm
[19:28:17 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> How do I set an environment variable in Windows?
[19:28:23 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> "set" 
[19:28:26 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> I mean, I know how to from the control panel
[19:28:27 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> cool
[19:28:46 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> once again, 12-year old Colin is laughing hysterically
[19:28:48 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> somewhere
[19:35:54 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> Was he prone to that? : P
[19:35:57 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> hmm
[19:36:02 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> Well, he was pretty mouthy
[19:36:21 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> Looks like everything is working really smoothly for Jim
[19:36:30 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> or rather
[19:36:31 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> will be
[19:36:40 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> assuming I can get ahold of him
[19:36:45 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> so, Bosmon
[19:36:49 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> just to be sure
[19:37:09 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> is your impression that these config files
[19:37:24 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> say, config.demo_local.json
[19:37:30 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> are keyed by the NODE_ENV value?
[19:37:57 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> in other words
[19:38:13 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> set NODE_ENV=demo_local should cause the system to read preferences off the file system?
[19:38:32 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> That appears to be right
[19:38:46 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> Although I wouldn't swear to it 100% since I have never done it
[19:40:11 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> it looks like it is the case
[19:41:14 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> okay, good
[19:41:16 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> I now understand this system at least vaguely 
[19:42:35 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> cool
[19:42:39 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> I'm off to dinner shortly
[19:42:46 CDT(-0500)] <Bosmon> Anything I can do/report quickly?
[20:18:26 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> Bosmon: We're cool
[20:18:29 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> Jim's demo is all set
[20:18:34 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> everything works great on his machine
[20:18:37 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> thanks again, dude
[20:18:40 CDT(-0500)] <colinclark> I really appreciate it