On Sat, 2015-12-26 at 07:16 -0800, David Haslam wrote: > > But it's not saving time overall because it's being done so badly. >
Well it has saved my time - apart from answering your emails I have even cumulatively spend less time on this than on any publication prior, including republication that I would have otherwise. I am celebrating Christmas with friends etc, I am on call medically and I have still issued 7 modules in 3 days. As it is my time I am dealing with primarily I call it now a resounding success. And I am not sarcastic. Just pissed off. > It's wasting time for those of us who submitted good working modules! > This causes a huge amount of frustration. No one ever was supposed to submit good working modules - just a OSIS and a conf file which can be compiled into good working modules. I now say just an OSIS and a conf file fragment which can get compiled into a good working module. No difference whatsoever. > > I stick to my assertion that it's fundamentally flawed because it's > not fit > for purpose. Well, it serves its purpose right now and it has served it well before - i was able to apply corrections in seconds instead of waiting when I have a half hour or more time and will not get disturbed - and it already produces less delays and less problems than anything either Chris or I did in the past. > I have no confidence that it can be reliably mended. > > There are simply too many possible variations in conf files that no- > one can > predict. No, there are not. There are calculated and not calculated parts. If I did not have to delete the calculated parts from your files which are simply all over the place in their order then I would have saved myself (and you) half of the mistakes you moaned about. Submit what I ask you for and leave the rest to my scripts. Submit more than I ask you then I waste time deleting the crap out of your submissions so that I do not have doubled up lines or non-functional parts. In absence of a wiki page on the process the confmaker.pl code is public, has been announced ages ago on the mailing list, the process has been discussed here and on [email protected], all in all it has been public as a direction of travel for over a three years. The code is in our repositories and has been constantly updated - all updates go through crosswire-svn so all in all it is selfexplanatory and tells you exactly what detail you can expect will be calculated - and what you need to supply. Supply too much as you did, then I will need to delete and then we have problems. In future I will reject your conf files and will ask you to shorten them yourself. > Today I saw unrelated lines inserted before a continuation line. ? > It's not as if the line order was fixed, though there are a few items > that > must be in a particular order. ? Which ones and why? Peter _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
