I’ve just started learning Python as I need it for a project. So far I find the language pretty easy to use; the major caveat being that I know virtually nothing of what is available. I did manage to do a bit of graph processing, however, and draw this neat tree using pydot and pyparsing: […]
Tag: Programming
Legacy Code
I’m currently working on making CPN Tools, a tool for editing and simulating coloured Petri nets (CP-nets or CPNs), work on Windows 7 64-bit versions.
Problem the first: Nobody has compiled CPN Tools in 2-3 years. In order to compile, we need a specially patched version of the Beta compiler and the linker from Microsoft Visual Studio 6.
Problem the fourth: The crap didn’t run. I even tested the file before making the build image. All I got was a “Beta Execution Aborted, Reference is NONE” (basically a null-pointer error or segmentation fault). […]