On 3 Apr 2019, at 19:37, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote:
> 
> On Apr 3, 2019, at 6:30 AM, Lifepillar <lifepil...@icloud.com> wrote:
>> 
>> By default, the precision is limited to 39 digits and exponents must be
>> in the range [-99,999,999,+99,999,999] (for some mathematical
>> operations, the exponent must not exceed 99,999 in absolute value).
> 
> That’s enough. :)

Should you need more, the storage format would not need to be changed!

>> Also, this is my first public Fossil repository: if you have any
>> suggestions on how I should improve its configuration, let me know.
> 
> The CRLF line endings in the decNumber directory can cause problems if you 
> ever cause a merge conflict.
> 
> Fossil has no problems doing merges on arbitrary data, but when it writes out 
> the conflict-resolution files to help the user manually fix a merge conflict, 
> it does so with the assumption that you’re using LF-only line endings, 
> causing stray CRs in the output.

Thanks, I did not know that.

> Unless you really need CRLF for some reason, it’s best to convert those line 
> endings.  That’ll also avoid the need to set the Fossil crlf-glob setting.

So far I have left line endings as I have found them, but I will
proceed to convert them following your advice.


>> Git mirror (which exists only for testing `fossil git export`...):
>> 
>>   https://github.com/lifepillar/sqlite3decimal-mirror
> 
> I wouldn’t say “only.”  If nothing else, it’s advertising for your project, 
> and it’ll make it more likely to show up in web searches.

Actually, I aimed at targeted advertising in this mailing list :) There
was some discussion about big numbers in the past, so I thought my
project might be interesting for some people here.

And perhaps I should have added that I welcome feedback at Chisel
(tickets for now: I haven't configured the permissions for the forum
yet), if you wish to discuss the project in more detail.

Life.


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