[Os-project-managers] Ticket 50

[R. Kipp Martin]

On 4/25/12 6:00 AM, Horand Gassmann wrote:
> Kipp Martin <kmartin at chicagobooth.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys:
>>
>> My honest opinion is that anyone using embedded blanks in a file name
>> gets what they deserve. I suppose at some point we may need to address
>> this but I vote to put it on the back burner. We enough enough to do.
>> I think we should resolve ticket 14 and then do what is necessary to
>> finish the OSoL/OSrL paper. It is inconceivable to me that we should
>> contemplate going down this path at this point.
>
> I agree with the prioritization, but I would attach a bit more urgency
> to it than "back burner". First, the fix is rather simple. Putting some
> more patterns into OSParseosss.l is trivial, and I do not understand
> your reluctance in allowing OSAmplClient access to the command line
> parser. I simply do not. Sorry.

OSAmplClient DOES USE THE  COMMAND LINE PARSER!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> The other point is that Mike talked about folder names, not file names,
> and there the user actually may not have a lot of choice. Under Windows,
> for instance, it is quite common to have one's files stored under the
> "My Documents" folder, which is generated by the system. I think it is a
> bit much to ask the user to change the name or use a different location
> just so that OSAmplClient can stay "pure". No offense, but I definitely
> think you are misguided on this one.

They can move the files. Even idiotic Windows lets you move files!!!!!

Cheers

>
> Cheers
>
> gus
>
>
>>> some very preliminary thoughts about ticket 50. Mike Steglich wants to
>>> be able to use files and folders that have embedded spaces. He proposes
>>> to use the form
>>> -osol "folder with spaces/filename"
>>> for this purpose and started to code some patches to OSSolverService
>>> that would allow him to strip the quotes at the right time. (Other file
>>> types would be handled analagously.)
>>>
>>> My take on this is that if we allow it, we must allow it everywhere,
>>> that is, in the config file, the osol file, the interactive shell, the
>>> OSSolverService command line, and the OSAmplClient. I do not like Mike's
>>> patches, and he admits himself that they do not always work. My
>>> preferred approach would be to add further patterns to the command line
>>> parser OSParseosss.l, (and to let OSAmplClient use the same command line
>>> parser!!!)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> gus
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Horand I. Gassmann, Professor
>>>
>>> School of Business Administration, Dalhousie University
>>> 6100 University Avenue, PO Box 15000
>>> Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 4R2
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>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Kipp Martin
>> Professor of Operations Research
>> and Computing Technology
>> Booth School of Business
>> University of Chicago
>> 5807 South Woodlawn Avenue
>> Chicago, IL 60637
>> 773-702-7456
>> kmartin at chicagobooth.edu
>> http://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/bio.aspx?person_id=12825325568
>> http://projects.coin-or.org/OS
>>
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>>
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> Horand I. Gassmann, Professor
>
> School of Business Administration, Dalhousie University
> 6100 University Avenue, PO Box 15000
> Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 4R2
> ph. (902) 494-1844
> fax (902) 494-1107
>
> http://myweb.dal.ca/gassmann/
>


-- 
Kipp Martin
Professor of Operations Research
and Computing Technology
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago
5807 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
773-702-7456
kmartin at chicagobooth.edu
http://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/bio.aspx?person_id=12825325568
http://projects.coin-or.org/OS

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