Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : andrew clarke
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Wed Nov 06 2002 06:43 pm

Hi andrew.

05-Nov-02 11:20:48, andrew clarke wrote to Scott Little


 ac> Sat 2002-11-02 10:08, Scott Little (3:712/848) wrote to andrew clarke:

 >> While we're at it, can we standardise the Flags formatting too
 >> (FTS-5001)?  Eg. rather than Txx T:xx, making it simpler to parse them
 >> generically.

 ac> I couldn't find any ",T:" in my nodelist, so I think that's a non-issue,
 ac> unless
 ac> I've misunderstood

He's pushing to separate the data part from the identifier part.

The way we have it there's over 2000 different Txy type flags possible

by putting the colon in in the new format there's one T: that has a 2
character data field after it.

otherwise you make T a special case when parsing the nodelist and speaciual
cases are yucky and tend to cause problems in the future,

personally I'd prefer to replace the Txy flag with TIME:xy or similar
conversion software (to produce FTS5 nodelists) should be able to to that
conversion.

 -=> Bye <=-

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