Re: [Oorexx-devel] Discussion of missing SourceForge links...

2012-08-28 Thread Michael Lueck
Mark Miesfeld wrote:

 The new SourceForge interface we are using has some problems loading
 the summary page and as a result the correct menu doesn't get loaded.

Mark, I clicked on one of the projects you are a developer for, and that 
project had more links... so evidently the number of links displayed is 
different from project to project.

Thank you for providing your link as well. I will add that to my ooRexx 
bookmark collection.

Sincerely,

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Re: [Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

2012-08-28 Thread Michael Lueck
Chip Davis wrote:
 SysFileTree() otoh, was never intended for interactive use and is more
 accurately regarded as a application interface to the file system.

snip

 IMHO, of course.

So was that a +1 for my RFE?

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Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-28 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
Just realized (from habits of the past) that I forgot to explicitly ask for 
voting (up or down or
abstain)!

So please, if interested in any of these RFEs below, then consider to vote up 
or down or abstain by
clicking on the link and then press the + button or the - button. If you want 
to abstain after
having clicked any of these buttons, just re-click them, such that they pop 
back to neutral (abstain).

---rony


On 25.08.2012 13:09, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
 Hi there,

 thank you very much for all of your feedback which encouraged me to create 
 the following two RFEs:

   * feature-requests:479 Add a condense method to the Array class:
 https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/feature-requests/479/ and
   * feature-requests:480 Allow the sort/sortWith methods to sort sparse 
 arrays as well:
 https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/feature-requests/480/

 ---rony



 On 24.08.2012 12:01, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
 Yesterday I stumbled over a surprising behaviour of Array's sort, which led 
 me to open a bug
 report https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/bugs/1107/. Obviously the sorting 
 is working as
 designed, hence the reported behaviour was not accepted as a bug.

 Having slept a night over this and thinking about my utmost surprise that 
 sort would raise an
 error condition if it hits an empty array element (one without an entry) in 
 between, I try to
 summarize my thoughts about the current behaviour, requesting a change of 
 the design and
 implementation to get rid of the surprising factor and to remove 
 undeterminable fragility from
 the Array sort.

 First, the current design and implementation:

 The single dimiensioned array that gets sorted must not have empty 
 entries in between. If the
 sort tries to refer to an empty slot it raises Error 98.975: Missing 
 array element at
 position xyz and the program is ended, if the condition does not get 
 trapped.

 Thoughts about this:

  1. Having worked for many years sorting arrays, I was *totally surprised* 
 about this unexpected
 (because never experienced) behaviour! The surprise factor for me was at 
 the maximum.
  2. There is no documentation going with sorting arrays that would 
 communicate that the arrays to
 be sorted must have no empty elements in between that I am aware of. 
 Therefore one cannot
 expect this behaviour at all.
  3. If one uses single dimensioned arrays that get changed in routines and 
 methods (written by
 others) such that elements get removed in between, then sorting such an 
 array all of a sudden
 (and totally unforseeable) raises the above mentioned error condition, 
 which makes sort quite
 fragile for programmers IMHO.
  1. To overcome this situation, one must advice every ooRexx programmer 
 to do *always* a
 (potentially time-consuming) makearray before sorting an array just 
 to make sure that the
 aforementioned error condition does not get raised.
  4. Finally, I would have expected that an array with empty elements should 
 be sortable without a
 problem, therefore my utmost surprise! :)
  1. My expectations would be simply as follows: if a single dimensioned 
 array contained empty
 elements, then sorting would work and all the empty elements are 
 sorted to the end of the
 array, no matter what the comparison method returns. This way, after 
 a sort, all empty
 elements are always at the end of the array. (The items and size 
 messages would remain
 the same.)

 The questions I would have, before contemplating about filing a RFE:

   * am I the only one who is surprised about a failing sort on a single 
 dimensioned array if in
 between there are empty elements?
   * Independent of this, would it be acceptable to change the current design 
 and implementation
 of the sort such that empty elements are tolerated and put to the end of 
 the array (what
 would be arguments, thoughts that speak against such a change)?

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Re: [Oorexx-devel] Publican Status

2012-08-28 Thread Mark Miesfeld
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 6:08 AM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.com wrote:

 I will commit what I have done so far later this morning. Here is what
 is left for finishing.

 2. All the edits are done except finishing the conversion of link tage
 to xref tags. About 1/3 of the files are converted. Take a look at how
 I am doing the conversion and you will see that ir requires a LOT of
 hand editing. I tried to write a program to do it but I could not get it
 to work without it creating more problems than it solved.

Okay good.  I think I may be able to do a global search and replace
with Slick Edit to do a lot of them.  Stress the word 'think.'  We'll
see.

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Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-28 Thread Dan Carter
Rony, I just tried to vote, but there was no response when clicking the
button.  What else must I do to register a vote?

 

 

From: Rony G. Flatscher [mailto:rony.flatsc...@wu-wien.ac.at] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 06:49
To: oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for
discussion/thoughts ...

 

Just realized (from habits of the past) that I forgot to explicitly ask for
voting (up or down or abstain)!

So please, if interested in any of these RFEs below, then consider to vote
up or down or abstain by clicking on the link and then press the + button or
the - button. If you want to abstain after having clicked any of these
buttons, just re-click them, such that they pop back to neutral (abstain).

---rony



On 25.08.2012 13:09, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:

Hi there,

thank you very much for all of your feedback which encouraged me to create
the following two RFEs:

*   feature-requests:479 Add a condense method to the Array class:
https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/feature-requests/479/ and
*   feature-requests:480 Allow the sort/sortWith methods to sort sparse
arrays as well: https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/feature-requests/480/

---rony

 

On 24.08.2012 12:01, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:

Yesterday I stumbled over a surprising behaviour of Array's sort, which led
me to open a bug report  https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/bugs/1107/
https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/bugs/1107/. Obviously the sorting is
working as designed, hence the reported behaviour was not accepted as a bug.

Having slept a night over this and thinking about my utmost surprise that
sort would raise an error condition if it hits an empty array element (one
without an entry) in between, I try to summarize my thoughts about the
current behaviour, requesting a change of the design and implementation to
get rid of the surprising factor and to remove undeterminable fragility from
the Array sort.

First, the current design and implementation:

The single dimiensioned array that gets sorted must not have empty entries
in between. If the sort tries to refer to an empty slot it raises Error
98.975: Missing array element at position xyz and the program is ended, if
the condition does not get trapped.

Thoughts about this:

1.  Having worked for many years sorting arrays, I was *totally
surprised* about this unexpected (because never experienced) behaviour! The
surprise factor for me was at the maximum. 
2.  There is no documentation going with sorting arrays that would
communicate that the arrays to be sorted must have no empty elements in
between that I am aware of. Therefore one cannot expect this behaviour at
all.
3.  If one uses single dimensioned arrays that get changed in routines
and methods (written by others) such that elements get removed in between,
then sorting such an array all of a sudden (and totally unforseeable) raises
the above mentioned error condition, which makes sort quite fragile for
programmers IMHO.

1.  To overcome this situation, one must advice every ooRexx programmer
to do *always* a (potentially time-consuming) makearray before sorting an
array just to make sure that the aforementioned error condition does not get
raised.

4.  Finally, I would have expected that an array with empty elements
should be sortable without a problem, therefore my utmost surprise! :) 

1.  My expectations would be simply as follows: if a single dimensioned
array contained empty elements, then sorting would work and all the empty
elements are sorted to the end of the array, no matter what the comparison
method returns. This way, after a sort, all empty elements are always at the
end of the array. (The items and size messages would remain the same.)

The questions I would have, before contemplating about filing a RFE: 

*   am I the only one who is surprised about a failing sort on a single
dimensioned array if in between there are empty elements? 
*   Independent of this, would it be acceptable to change the current
design and implementation of the sort such that empty elements are tolerated
and put to the end of the array (what would be arguments, thoughts that
speak against such a change)?

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Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-28 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
Dan:

On 28.08.2012 15:22, Mark Miesfeld wrote:
 On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Dan Carter gwcar...@ezlink.com wrote:

 Rony, I just tried to vote, but there was no response when clicking the
 button.  What else must I do to register a vote?
 It worked okay for me.  I voted up and then back to abstain with no
 problem.  It's possible that you need to be logged in to SourceForge
 for your vote to count.
Mark is probably right, you would need to login to Sourceforge with your 
Sourceforge account. It
also seems that the site remembers who voted, such that one is able to remove a 
vote or change it later.

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Re: [Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

2012-08-28 Thread Chip Davis
On 8/28/2012 08:46 Rony G. Flatscher said:
 On 28.08.2012 13:02, Michael Lueck wrote:
 Chip Davis wrote:
 SysFileTree() otoh, was never intended for interactive use and is more
 accurately regarded as a application interface to the file system.
 snip

 IMHO, of course.
 So was that a +1 for my RFE?
 Hmm, only after reading this did I conclude that I could do a +1 on your RFE 
 right there at:
 https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/feature-requests/482/.

 Just did that and saw that you yourself had not done that vote up.

I had not bumped the RFE because I wanted to initiate a discussion 
about the implementation of it, first.  Specifically, Michael 
suggested a flag to indicate that every file should be returned.

My point was that return every file should be the default behavior, 
and that the interface could use flags, RE's, wildcards, arguments, or 
whatever, to indicate something less than every file was desired.

I know the backwards compatibility argument will be raised, but the 
current behavior is not consistent across all filesystems now.  The 
only reasonable default behavior is for SysFileTree() to return all 
the files it can see on whatever filesystem it is scanning.

I have now bumped this RFE, primarily to encourage someone to look at 
the issue.  I would prefer that the solution suggested by the RFE not 
be the way it is implemented.

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Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-28 Thread Chip Davis
On 8/28/2012 09:38 Rony G. Flatscher said:
 On 28.08.2012 15:22, Mark Miesfeld wrote:
 On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Dan Carter gwcar...@ezlink.com wrote:
 Rony, I just tried to vote, but there was no response when clicking the
 button.  What else must I do to register a vote?
 It worked okay for me.  I voted up and then back to abstain with no
 problem.  It's possible that you need to be logged in to SourceForge
 for your vote to count.
 Mark is probably right, you would need to login to Sourceforge with your 
 Sourceforge account. It
 also seems that the site remembers who voted, such that one is able to remove 
 a vote or change it later.

Indeed, I went to the RFE link and the voting buttons did not work, so 
I logged in and returned to the RFE page where they still did not 
work.  Refreshing the page after logging in to Sourceforge did the trick.

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Re: [Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

2012-08-28 Thread Mark Miesfeld
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Chip Davis c...@aviatrexx.com wrote:
 On 8/28/2012 08:46 Rony G. Flatscher said:
 Just did that and saw that you yourself had not done that vote up.

 I had not bumped the RFE because I wanted to initiate a discussion

Actually I think Rony meant Michael had not bumped up his own RFE, but
that's not that relevant.

 about the implementation of it, first.  Specifically, Michael
 suggested a flag to indicate that every file should be returned.

 My point was that return every file should be the default behavior,
 and that the interface could use flags, RE's, wildcards, arguments, or
 whatever, to indicate something less than every file was desired.

 I know the backwards compatibility argument will be raised, but the

But what about backwards compatibility?

I agree with you that the reasonable default for the S flags would
have been all files.  But it wasn't implemented that way on Unix-like
systems.  It's been that way for a long time, probably forever.  If we
suddenly changed the behavior, programs like the ones Michael has
already written and has been using would no longer produce the same
results.

Is that okay to do just because the original default wasn't reasonable?

That's the question I'm interested in.

 I have now bumped this RFE, primarily to encourage someone to look at
 the issue.  I would prefer that the solution suggested by the RFE not
 be the way it is implemented.

Did you add a comment stating that also?

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[Oorexx-devel] svnnotify now available on Sourceforge (Fwd: Re: Questions ad Allura ...

2012-08-28 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
This was just posted a few minutes ago on the allura-dev list.

If I understand correctly, than one can use the svnnotify hook to send a commit 
message to a
configured mailing list, which might solve the problem.

---rony


 Original Message 
Subject:Re: Questions ad Allura ...
Date:   Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:30:59 -0400
From:   Dave Brondsema d...@brondsema.net
Reply-To:   allura-...@incubator.apache.org
To: allura-...@incubator.apache.org



On 8/23/12 5:58 PM, Dave Brondsema wrote:
 Hi again Rony.  Thanks for the feedback.
 
 On 8/23/12 5:09 AM, Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) wrote:
 Hi Dave,

 On 22.08.2012 20:00, Dave Brondsema wrote:

 Commit diffs in emails:  I see there are a lot of votes and comments on
 https://sourceforge.net/p/allura/tickets/2922/  I assume many are from
 ooRexx developers.  It certainly is on our radar due to that, and
 something we'd like to add.  When subscribed (btw, admins are
 automatically subscribed to all tools including SVN) emails will be sent
 with each commit, including a link to view the diff.
 Maybe making this feature available for regular users (maybe as an option to 
 activate) would already
 solve this requeust?
 
 Yeah, I agree.
 

 In the mean time, you could consider using the RSS feed at
 https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/code-0/feed  I know that's not as good
 as an email.  We also want to get svn-notify available as a post-commit
 hook, but it isn't available yet.
 Great, thank you, looking forward to it!


svnnotify is now available on SourceForge:
https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/community-docs/Subversion/#adding-an-svnnotify-hook
 Setting up a commits mailing list may work well for you.

Since this is specific to the SourceForge deployment of Allura, it'd
probably be best to direct any questions/issues with svnnotify to SF
Support: https://sourceforge.net/support


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Re: [Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

2012-08-28 Thread Rony G. Flatscher

On 28.08.2012 19:32, Mark Miesfeld wrote:
 On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Chip Davis c...@aviatrexx.com wrote:
 On 8/28/2012 08:46 Rony G. Flatscher said:
 Just did that and saw that you yourself had not done that vote up.
 I had not bumped the RFE because I wanted to initiate a discussion
 Actually I think Rony meant Michael had not bumped up his own RFE, but
 that's not that relevant.

 about the implementation of it, first.  Specifically, Michael
 suggested a flag to indicate that every file should be returned.

 My point was that return every file should be the default behavior,
 and that the interface could use flags, RE's, wildcards, arguments, or
 whatever, to indicate something less than every file was desired.

 I know the backwards compatibility argument will be raised, but the
 But what about backwards compatibility?

 I agree with you that the reasonable default for the S flags would
 have been all files.  But it wasn't implemented that way on Unix-like
 systems.  It's been that way for a long time, probably forever.  If we
 suddenly changed the behavior, programs like the ones Michael has
 already written and has been using would no longer produce the same
 results.

 Is that okay to do just because the original default wasn't reasonable?

 That's the question I'm interested in.
This is an interesting question!

What, if one just regards the current behaviour on Unix systems to be a (long 
standing) bug, rather
than a RFE?
:)

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Re: [Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

2012-08-28 Thread Chip Davis
On 8/28/2012 14:08 Rony G. Flatscher said:
 On 28.08.2012 19:32, Mark Miesfeld wrote:
 On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Chip Davis c...@aviatrexx.com wrote:
 On 8/28/2012 08:46 Rony G. Flatscher said:
 Just did that and saw that you yourself had not done that vote up.
 I had not bumped the RFE because I wanted to initiate a discussion
 Actually I think Rony meant Michael had not bumped up his own RFE, but
 that's not that relevant.

 about the implementation of it, first.  Specifically, Michael
 suggested a flag to indicate that every file should be returned.

 My point was that return every file should be the default behavior,
 and that the interface could use flags, RE's, wildcards, arguments, or
 whatever, to indicate something less than every file was desired.

 I know the backwards compatibility argument will be raised, but the
 But what about backwards compatibility?

 I agree with you that the reasonable default for the S flags would
 have been all files.  But it wasn't implemented that way on Unix-like
 systems.  It's been that way for a long time, probably forever.  If we
 suddenly changed the behavior, programs like the ones Michael has
 already written and has been using would no longer produce the same
 results.

 Is that okay to do just because the original default wasn't reasonable?

 That's the question I'm interested in.
 This is an interesting question!

 What, if one just regards the current behaviour on Unix systems to be a (long 
 standing) bug, rather
 than a RFE?
 :)

As one who frequently raises the backward-compatibility issue, I fully 
recognize the issue with changing SysFileTree.  That's why I was 
reticent to vote for this RFE.  But it is broken now; fixing it will 
probably require more effort than writing a new routine.

Which means the best solution is a new routine.  Call it SysFileList 
if you will.  I'm with Rony in that all of the various implementations 
of SysFileTree that mimicked the behavior of a particular platform's 
interactive list files command ('ls', 'listfile', 'dir', et al.) 
were doomed to cross-platform failure from the start.

It's time we implemented a truly cross-platform file list utility, 
where the default is to return all files.

IMHO, of course.

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Re: [Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

2012-08-28 Thread Michael Lueck
Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
 Hmm, only after reading this did I conclude that I could do a +1 on your RFE 
 right there at:

I had no idea that the SF site had a voting system. I was interested in 
tabulating peer support that I am not a lunatic for requesting. ;-)

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Re: [Oorexx-devel] On the topic of enchaining SysFileTree...

2012-08-28 Thread Michael Lueck
Mark Miesfeld wrote:
 I agree with you that the reasonable default for the S flags would
 have been all files.  But it wasn't implemented that way on Unix-like
 systems.  It's been that way for a long time, probably forever.  If we
 suddenly changed the behavior, programs like the ones Michael has
 already written and has been using would no longer produce the same
 results.

 Is that okay to do just because the original default wasn't reasonable?

 That's the question I'm interested in.

I vote in favor of leaving the API alone for legacy support and band-aid it 
with an additional switch.

I do not want another big-bang upgrade pain like was felt with the ooRexx FTP 
class early on. I recall something in that API changed and programs were not 
portable across the hump. I had to decide to 
run the new ooRexx, hurry to change my code, and never to go back to older 
versions.

Until I get around to upgrading all places I need to double SysFileTree I 
would like that legacy code not to suddenly really find A files with '*' 
search pattern. That would cause duplication of 
the result set, slow down the program execution, etc...

Implement it the same way the L option was added to SysFileTree long long ago. 
Oh, I can receive four digit years from SysFileTree. How nice, I will use 
that.

Sincerely,

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[Oorexx-devel] ooRexx 4.1.2 code moved to release

2012-08-28 Thread Mark Miesfeld
Hi All

I moved main 4.1.2 from branches to releases and docs 4.1.2 from
branches to releases

Things are set on on SourceForge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/oorexx/files/oorexx/4.1.2/

and

https://sourceforge.net/projects/oorexx/files/oorexx-docs/4.1.2/

The 4.1.2 docs are built and uploaded to SourceForge.  For ooRexx
4.1.2, the Windows installers are built and uploaded, the source tar
and zip files are uploaded, and several Linux installers are uploaded.

I'll add some more Linuxes tomorrow, and send out the release
announcement Thursday night.

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