Re: ENB: about external file format 5-thin

2020-06-06 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 8:30 AM vitalije wrote: Anyway, I won't insist on changing the format, but if we are changing > something it would be better to make all changes at once. > I agree. > > Regarding the first node start sentinel, perhaps new read code can just > skip this sentinel and use th

Re: ENB: about external file format 5-thin

2020-06-06 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 10:48 AM Thomas Passin wrote: > > > On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 10:42:37 AM UTC-4, vitalije wrote: >> >> >> You wonder why the speed of reading and writing matters. Perhaps when you >> use Leo it doesn't matter to you if it will load 200ms faster or not. But >> If a develo

Re: ENB: about external file format 5-thin

2020-06-06 Thread Thomas Passin
On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 10:42:37 AM UTC-4, vitalije wrote: > > > You wonder why the speed of reading and writing matters. Perhaps when you > use Leo it doesn't matter to you if it will load 200ms faster or not. But > If a developer wants to run thousand of tests than 20ms less actually mea

Re: ENB: about external file format 5-thin

2020-06-06 Thread vitalije
On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 4:18:00 PM UTC+2, Thomas Passin wrote: > > Edward also mentioned redundancy. IMO, redundancy that helps in error > recovery is good. Remember, there are going to be tens of thousands of > files in the new format eventually. Some of them will have mis-used > direc

Re: ENB: about external file format 5-thin

2020-06-06 Thread Thomas Passin
On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 9:30:38 AM UTC-4, vitalije wrote: > > 6. Changing Leo's file format to make your new code easier to test would >> be letting the tail wag the dog. I am confident that you can find a robust >> testing strategy that does not depend on a new file format. >> > > I unders

Re: ENB: about external file format 5-thin

2020-06-06 Thread vitalije
> > 6. Changing Leo's file format to make your new code easier to test would > be letting the tail wag the dog. I am confident that you can find a robust > testing strategy that does not depend on a new file format. > I wrote this post not because I couldn't make tests. The attached Leo docume

Re: ENB: about external file format 5-thin

2020-06-06 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 10:10 AM vitalije wrote: For the past few days I've been working on the reusable functions for both > parsing content of external files and writing external files. In the > attached Leo document there are two new scripts. One is for generating the > test data, and the other

Re: New version of LeoInteg released: 0.1.9 stable "Proof of concept"

2020-06-06 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 3:54 PM FĂ©lix wrote: > > This conversation is very valuable because I want to make the experience > of installing and using LeoInteg easy and straightforward for all long-time > (or not) users of Leo, irrespective of their familiarity with vscode. So > thanks for putting ou