Re: [Devmon-devel] SF.net SVN: devmon:[216] trunk/modules/dm_tests.pm

[Buchan M. <bg...@st...>]

----- "David Baldwin" <dav...@au...> wrote:

> Buchan,
> 
> My apologies for my previous message - I wasn't reading the TEMPLATES
> file from the latest SVN when I wrote my reply.
> 
> I have added an now probably superfluous additional clarification.
> 
> I still think it would be desirable to support '*' as an alternative
> to
> 'x' (and less work!).

Agreed. I discussed this somewhere, but couldn't find the mail or tracker item yesterday.


> My earlier commit changing s/ x / \* / to s/\bx\b/\*/ doesn't handle
> cases like 2x3 anyway :( 

I was concerned that it might still be confusing in some cases, but didn't have an example.

> It would probably be necessary to parse the
> expression, similar to what is done in dm_templates to tokenise the
> expression and then do the substitutions and then reassemble the
> expression.

cost/benefit of just recommending/enforcing white space around 'x' is much lower, and maybe we should introduce '*' before releasing 0.3.1.

I haven't seen any more cases of devmon going purple with current svn (plus some minor local changes), so I think we should look at finalising 0.3.1 soon (maybe next week.

I'll have another look through the tracker today or Tuesday.

Regards,
Buchan