[Sharpneat-developers] Dynamic experiment loading

[Colin G. <cg...@ds...>]

Hi Again,

A few points further to my last email. Actually I think the experiment 
title should be in the config, otherwise you have to load all 
experiments to build the combo! but the description and most other 
config data can go into the IExperiment. To alleviate the overhead of 
that this creates I have modified the existing experiment classes so 
that they don't instantiate an IPopulationEvaluator until one is 
requested (via the property). The fact that an evaluator was 
instantiated along with each experiment was a legacy from previous 
versions of the code.

The file paths within the config file are currently full paths to the 
debug directories, which creates a problem if you switch the solution to 
'release' mode. I'm not sure what the best solution is here but as a an 
initial solution I have made the paths relative (so they just specify 
the dll name) and added references to the experiment projects to to the 
SharpNeatGui project, this causes the experiment dll's to get copied 
into the debug dir alongside the main EXE thus ensuring the relative 
paths work.

A couple of other things I forgot to mention. There was a 
WebConfigElementListHandler and a ConfigElementListHandler project in 
your zip file but only the former was being used, is this name (prefixed 
with 'Web') correct? And could the class in this project actually be 
moved into your AppUtils project?

Anyway for now there is another updated zip file available on this URL:

http://sharpneat.sourceforge.net/prerelease/

I'll start putting zips at that URL from now on rather than fill up your 
inbox!

Regards,

Colin.