Post by George on Aug 24, 2019 14:44:23 GMT -5
Robert: Again you have said that I am creating some significant changes or additional GUI interfaces. I have said before that I am not - Still true. There is 1 additional field on the Options => General dialog, and 1 additional Config tab, which users who wish to stay with the current config storage methods, can completely ignore.
Your point 12. Validating changes to PARM files. This tosses this off as a simple test for PARM file formatting. Really? where does the test for valid parameters occur? Where do I catch ScrlAmnt=FRED. or FMLayout="Tom, Dick, Harry"
Using this storage format now introduces file inter-dependencies between the SQL repository and all the various PARM files. This to me is far scarier than my suggestion of using an SQL database. Handling the Sync required by your point 13 is, for me, enough to signal that this file dependency is real, and complex. I would certainly not want to chase any reported bugs that might have been triggered by so miss-sync of these files.
But mostly this would require very significant changes to all the code for all the parameter files (Main INI, Profiles, KBD, etc. etc.), and associated changes to the Editor to handle links and dynamically switch files mid-Edit, to File Manager for the FLISTS, frankly this is way beyond any size project I would consider tackling.
George
Your point 12. Validating changes to PARM files. This tosses this off as a simple test for PARM file formatting. Really? where does the test for valid parameters occur? Where do I catch ScrlAmnt=FRED. or FMLayout="Tom, Dick, Harry"
Using this storage format now introduces file inter-dependencies between the SQL repository and all the various PARM files. This to me is far scarier than my suggestion of using an SQL database. Handling the Sync required by your point 13 is, for me, enough to signal that this file dependency is real, and complex. I would certainly not want to chase any reported bugs that might have been triggered by so miss-sync of these files.
But mostly this would require very significant changes to all the code for all the parameter files (Main INI, Profiles, KBD, etc. etc.), and associated changes to the Editor to handle links and dynamically switch files mid-Edit, to File Manager for the FLISTS, frankly this is way beyond any size project I would consider tackling.
George