Re: CML2 1.4.0, aka "brutality and heuristics"
On Fri, 04 May 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Sigh...now, I hope, we can get back to solving problems that I don't > expect to be so rare they're lost in the statistical noise. It's not > good to get so obsessed about finding clever solutions to corner cases > that one loses sight of the larger issues. The problem about rare cases is that they don't get proper testing, so bugs may slip through and go unnoticed for an extended amount of time without even being documented. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: CML2 1.4.0, aka brutality and heuristics
On Fri, 04 May 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: Sigh...now, I hope, we can get back to solving problems that I don't expect to be so rare they're lost in the statistical noise. It's not good to get so obsessed about finding clever solutions to corner cases that one loses sight of the larger issues. The problem about rare cases is that they don't get proper testing, so bugs may slip through and go unnoticed for an extended amount of time without even being documented. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
CML2 1.4.0, aka "brutality and heuristics"
The latest version is always available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ Release 1.4.0: Fri May 4 18:18:15 EDT 2001 * Ugly hack for recovery from inconsistent configurations. We've spent a lot of time and effort recently arguing about elaborate recovery algorithms for the extremely unusual case that the CML2 configurator loads a configuration that has become invalid because of a constraint added to the rulebase since the configuration was written. (Mere addition of new symbols doesn't trigger this.) The general problem is theoretically hard and for practical purposes insoluble, so I've have implemented a suggestion by Dave Wagner and John Stoffel. CML2 will now try to recover fom a load-time inconsistency by smashing all the non-frozen symbols in the violated constraint to the value N (and notifying the user that it's doing so). This is ugly, but will handle most cases. In the few it doesn't handle, the bindings loaded from the file will be backed out as a unit. In any case the user will be left in a running configurator. Sigh...now, I hope, we can get back to solving problems that I don't expect to be so rare they're lost in the statistical noise. It's not good to get so obsessed about finding clever solutions to corner cases that one loses sight of the larger issues. -- http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/;>Eric S. Raymond The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this. -- Albert Einstein, "My First Impression of the U.S.A.", 1921 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
CML2 1.4.0, aka brutality and heuristics
The latest version is always available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ Release 1.4.0: Fri May 4 18:18:15 EDT 2001 * Ugly hack for recovery from inconsistent configurations. We've spent a lot of time and effort recently arguing about elaborate recovery algorithms for the extremely unusual case that the CML2 configurator loads a configuration that has become invalid because of a constraint added to the rulebase since the configuration was written. (Mere addition of new symbols doesn't trigger this.) The general problem is theoretically hard and for practical purposes insoluble, so I've have implemented a suggestion by Dave Wagner and John Stoffel. CML2 will now try to recover fom a load-time inconsistency by smashing all the non-frozen symbols in the violated constraint to the value N (and notifying the user that it's doing so). This is ugly, but will handle most cases. In the few it doesn't handle, the bindings loaded from the file will be backed out as a unit. In any case the user will be left in a running configurator. Sigh...now, I hope, we can get back to solving problems that I don't expect to be so rare they're lost in the statistical noise. It's not good to get so obsessed about finding clever solutions to corner cases that one loses sight of the larger issues. -- a href=http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/;Eric S. Raymond/a The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this. -- Albert Einstein, My First Impression of the U.S.A., 1921 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
