It really is a 'talking to humans' issue, not, in any real sense, a bug
in the code. weewx.conf is about the only place that a (non-developer)
human will be 'talking' to weewx, so it seems reasonable to take a few
extra steps to make the 'conversation' there more natural for the human.
I am still running V4.10, and haven't really looked at V5.x, but if you
would like to point me to the code in V5 that scans and parses
weewx.conf, I will take a stab at it.
On 4/1/2023 8:25 AM, Tom Keffer wrote:
Internally, weewx traffics in ValueTuples, which is a value along with
a measurement unit. SI Units are things like "second", "meter",
"kilogram," etc. not "seconds", "meters", and "kilograms". See NIST
<https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/metric-si/si-units>. So, internally,
that's what we want.
Now when we talk with humans, we may want to use plurality if there is
likely to be more than one, but that requires a mapping to and from
the singular value used internally. WeeWX already has some software
that does the transition from internal (SI) units to language, so I
suppose we could write something to go the other way.
It all seems unnecessarily complicated, but if someone wants to write
a PR, I'm willing to take a look.
-tk
On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 4:51 AM G Hammer <[email protected]> wrote:
If I'm asking someone which system they use, I have never asked
foot or meter. It's always do you prefer feet or meters.
On Monday, March 27, 2023 at 10:15:37 PM UTC-4 Peter Fletcher wrote:
I was certainly really thinking about the underlying code
rather than the installation script. When specifying units of
measurement, I think that using the singular form (foot or
meter) is the quirky approach!
On Monday, March 27, 2023 at 9:46:06 PM UTC-4 Graham Eddy wrote:
i agree that this is what is being asked for, which is
some kind of free-format description of altitude in local
quirky dialect (i exaggerate for effect).
i think what is presently provided is the correct approach
i.e. unequivocal in a supported weewx unit system
*⊣GE⊢*
On 28 Mar 2023, at 12:36 pm, Vince Skahan
<[email protected]> wrote:
I think they're asking that the underlying code use
plural for altitude because it is unlike the altitude
would ever be 1 foot/meter regardless of whether it's a
pip/apt/yum installation. (it's always 0 or 2 or 123
feet/meters etc.)
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