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On Tuesday 03 February 2004 04:37, Eric Sammer wrote: |
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> Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > You might want to note that the offer of saving the profile is only |
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> > reliable in the case that certain steps have not been performed |
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> > manually. |
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> This is very true. |
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> > One might |
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> > give the option to redo things, or to review parts where some kind |
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> > of manual intervention has taken place. |
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> This is interesting. At risk of starting YA-Flame-War, I'd |
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> (personally) like to get a base system back end working before we get |
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> into pausing between steps and allowing users to muck around. |
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> Before everyone floods with "but I want to do some stuff manually," |
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> take a deep breath and remember that I said *before* meaning that |
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> there's an *after* meaning it is inevitable. ;) |
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Just remember to use a progressive xml parsing strategy like SAX (forget |
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DOM) so at least you can do things as pause. In this case you just do |
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things as you find them in the xml file. If the file/pipe blocks you |
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have a pause, else you continue, all for free. |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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