Re: New scriptreplay is out-of-sync (longish)

[Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 07:52:04PM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  I think we have to support old (already generated) typescripts.

 well, more precisely s/typescripts/timing files/

> We're not (before this) talking about changing the format though, are we?

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 05:40:00AM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote:
 > - From a Pragmatism POV, though, there's the fact that, if we
 > simply kludge scriptreplay.c to behave as the original did, then
 > the timing files from all versions of script, new and old, will
 > work with the current scriptreplay. If we fix script.c instead,
 > then everyone has to be careful not to mix versions of script.
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 ...because fixed script means a different output (timing data).

> 
> >  I don't like the typescript "format". It's mess without a header and
> >  information about a version, ... so, I like the idea to implement a
> >  new better format (with timing?), but we have to support the old
> >  format too. I propose:
> >
> >               1/ fix scriptreplay.c (just for backward compatibility)
> 
> I guess we also need to fix the documentation, too.

 Why?

    Karel

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