Hi Christian,

It works now here as well, so as I said in my second e-mail, whatever  
error there was in the PubMed server, it has now been corrected.

Best regards,


Miguel

Le 6 janv. 09 à 12:21, Christiaan Hofman a écrit :

> I have no problem searching pubmed with the latest release, so it's
> almost certainly a connection problem on your side. Is there anything
> in the console logs?
>
> Christiaan
>
> On 6 Jan 2009, at 11:20 AM, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> First of all, thank you to all of you for your efforts in making
>> BibDesk such a useful application. I wish I could do more programming
>> myself to help.
>>
>> Now, yet a new problem with PubMed... Today searches on PubMed from
>> within BibDesk are failing with the error:
>>
>> Incorrect result type
>>
>> If you stubbornly repeat the search, then you can see in the status
>> bar (well, the bottom bar, sorry not sure how you call it) that the
>> correct number of matches were found, but 'Some results could not be
>> parsed'. Since I can see these results properly in my web browser  
>> if I
>> search directly in the PubMed site, I presume that, as the first  
>> error
>> message said, this is probably a problem with the server, they may
>> have changed again their formats... My question is: could you please
>> tell me how to debug this problem? I would like to help with any
>> information you may find useful.
>>
>> This problem happens with both BD 1.3.19 and the latest available
>> nightly build (from 2008-12-23, the nightlies built after that date
>> seem to have failed)
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>
>> Miguel
>>
>> Le 6 janv. 09 à 03:41, Gregory Jefferis a écrit :
>>
>>> On 2009-01-05 10:50, "Christiaan Hofman" <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> No, those unit tests are far out of date, and I'm pretty sure they
>>>> won't even compile.
>>>
>>> Yes indeed the first ones that I tried (TestBibItem) don't compile.
>>>
>>>>> I see that there are some Unit Tests in the BibDesk project that
>>>>> have been
>>>>> untouched since about Jan 2005.  They currently use the UnitKit
>>>>> framework
>>>>> that is no longer being developed.  It looks like Mike McCracken
>>>>> had
>>>>> a go at
>>>>> switching to the SenTestingKit (aka OCUnit) framework that is now
>>>>> bundled
>>>>> with Developer Tools.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://bibdesk.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bibdesk/trunk/?
>>>>> pathrev=1264
>>>>>
>>>>> With commit message:
>>>>>
>>>>> Tried to rewrite Test stuff, failed for now due to dependencies
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know what the problem here was?
>>>
>>> I have tried translating the first part of the TestBibItem to the  
>>> new
>>> SenTesting framework without any issues.  I have also started
>>> writing some
>>> test cases for the PubMed parser.   I think that the use of test
>>> cases for
>>> the various parsers would really reduce the amount of time spent
>>> tracking
>>> down/fixing bugs like the PubMed -> BibTex year bug that I have
>>> recently
>>> written about.  That would surely be good news for everyone.
>>>
>>>> I'm not gonna bother with them anyway. I'm seriously building down
>>>> development efforts for BD, and there's nobody to take over. So  
>>>> it's
>>>> perhaps a bit academic.
>>>
>>> I'm sorry to hear that, but I can understand that the time
>>> commitment could
>>> get too heavy - I count 4764 svn commits in my checkout.  I wonder
>>> though if
>>> you could scale back your efforts to concentrate on core issues  
>>> while
>>> leaving fixes for stuff you don't use to others - it might make the
>>> work
>>> that you do more enjoyable.  And I think there are a few people out
>>> there
>>> like myself capable of making small contributions to the areas that
>>> we care
>>> about.
>>>
>>> Incidentally, re the discussion about Unit tests, it seems to me
>>> that adding
>>> more unit tests would have the additional benefit of making it a bit
>>> safer
>>> for new people to make code modifications.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Greg.
>>>
>>>
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