Re: [SMW-devel] [Semediawiki-user] [News] SVN update warning

[Günther Z. <zeh...@mo...>]

Hi Markus,

> The change will also introduce some fixed
> limit on how many values a
> multi- valued property can at most have. It
> is currently set to 5.

can you please tell me what has now been implemented regarding the number of values for multi-valued properties in SMW 1.5?

Thanks,
Gu 


--- On Wed, 1/6/10, zeh...@mo... <zeh...@mo...> wrote:

> From: zeh...@mo... <zeh...@mo...>
> Subject: Re: [Semediawiki-user] [SMW-devel] [News] SVN update warning
> To: ma...@se...
> Cc: Sem...@li..., sem...@li...
> Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 5:54 PM
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure what the maximum is right now, between 10 and
> 20 but the point is
> that tomorrow a dataset could come along which has 50 or
> more parts. So having
> any fixed value, especially one which can only be changed
> by modifying the code
> itself, is a serious drawback although I assume you have a
> reasons why this
> limitation is necessary. It would, howerver, be great to
> have at least a global
> variable so one doesn't have to patch the code after each
> update.
> 
> Cheers,
> Gu
> 
> Quoting Markus Krötzsch <ma...@se...>:
> 
> > On Mittwoch, 6. Januar 2010, zeh...@mo...
> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > > The change will also introduce some fixed
> limit on how many values a
> > > > multi- valued property can at most have. It
> is currently set to 5. If
> > you
> > > > have any such properties with more than 5
> values then please let me
> > know.
> > > 
> > > If I understand correctly you mean the number of
> value-parts a
> > multi-valued
> > > property can have. Most of my properties are
> multivalued and some
> > certainly
> > >  have more than just 5 parts. I really hope
> that 'limit' will be a
> > variable
> > >  set via LocalSettings (for my use of SMW
> this change sounds rather scary
> > >  and makes me really kind of nervous).
> > 
> > So far, the limit is not planned to be a variable, but
> we can set a higher 
> > value right away if you need it. How many types do
> your longest n-ary 
> > properties have?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Markus
> > 
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Gu
> > > 
> > > Quoting Markus Krötzsch <ma...@se...>:
> > > > In preparation of SMW 1.5, I am currently
> doing some large-scale changes
> > > > to certain internals of the SMW code. This
> involves changes in the way
> > in
> > > > which
> > > >
> > > > multi-valued properties (a.k.a. n-ary
> properties) are handled.
> > > > Eventually, only very little will change
> from a user's perspective (only
> > > > a small change on
> > > > the property page of each multi-valued
> properties will be needed), but a
> > > > lot
> > > >
> > > > will change internally.
> > > >
> > > > The change will also introduce some fixed
> limit on how many values a
> > > > multi- valued property can at most have. It
> is currently set to 5. If
> > you
> > > > have any such properties with more than 5
> values then please let me
> > know.
> > > >
> > > > I therefore suggest to not upgrade wikis
> that use such properties to the
> > > > development version of SMW until the details
> on how to modify the pages
> > > > have
> > > >
> > > > been published and everything is known to
> work again.
> > > >
> > > > I will send a separate email to the
> developers' list regarding changes
> > > > that might affect developers.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Markus
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Markus Krötzsch  <ma...@se...>
> > * Personal page: http://korrekt.org
> > * Semantic MediaWiki: http://semantic-mediawiki.org
> > * Semantic Web textbook: http://semantic-web-book.org
> > --
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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