I’m having a rather odd feeling.
Reposurgeon. It’s…done; it’s a finished tool, fully fit for its intended purposes. After nine years of work and thinking, there’s nothing serious left on the to-do list. Nothing to do until someone files a bug or something in its environment changes, like someone writing an exporter/importer pair it doesn’t know about and should.
When you wrestle with a problem that is difficult and worthy for long enough, the problem becomes part of you. Having that go away is actually a bit disconcerting, like putting your foot on a step that’s not there. But it’s OK; there are lots of other interesting problems out there and I’m sure one will find me to replace reposurgeon’s place in my life.
I might try to write a synoptic look back on the project at some point.
Looking over some back blog posts on reposurgeon, I became aware that I never told my blog audience the last bit of the saga following my ankle surgery. That’s because there was no drama. The ankle is now fully healed and as solidly functional as though I never injured it at all – I’ve even stopped having residual aches in damp weather.
Evidently the internal cartilage healed up completely, which is far from a given with this sort of injury. My thanks to everyone who was supportive when I literally couldn’t walk.