Re: Status report: the new importers are nearing completion

2016-11-17 Thread Edward K. Ream
​​ ​​On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 3:34 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote: > On Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 6:23:21 AM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > > Work is going extremely well. I expect to complete the conversion of > the Python importer in a day or so. > > After three more days of intense work on all

Re: Status report: the new importers are nearing completion

2016-11-16 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 6:23:21 AM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: > Work is going extremely well. I expect to complete the conversion of the Python importer in a day or so. After three more days of intense work on all the importers, I expect to complete the Python importer later today.

Re: Status report: the new importers are nearing completion

2016-11-13 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Friday, November 11, 2016 at 10:27:38 AM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: Work is going extremely well. I expect to complete the conversion of the > Python importer in a day or so. > Still true, hehe. There have been a number of useful detours, discussed more fully at the end of #334

Re: Status report: the new importers are nearing completion

2016-11-12 Thread Edward K. Ream
​​On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote: > Future maintainers will see that almost *ever* importers work the same > way. > ​I meant to say that almost *all* importers work the same way. There are a few special cases: 1. json.py, and .ipynb.py. In both cases, the incoming text i

Re: Status report: the new importers are nearing completion

2016-11-11 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Friday, November 11, 2016 at 10:27:38 AM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: Work is going extremely well. > I forget to mention the biggest eventual payoff, namely that the old importers will disappear completely. Future maintainers will see that almost *ever* importers work the same way. The fe

Status report: the new importers are nearing completion

2016-11-11 Thread Edward K. Ream
Work is going extremely well. I expect to complete the conversion of the Python importer in a day or so. I have put a huge amount of work into the infrastructure of the code. The new code is much simpler than the old, and more flexible. As mentioned elsewhere, code generation now happens in