On 20/01/12 16:36, Wechsler, Steven wrote:
We’ve already discussed hostname lengths.
Apparently variable names are limited 19 characters, and job
titles to 13. Are there any other name length restrictions?
Any plans to increase them? Is it something that could be
configured at compile time?
Thanks!
Yes I'm intending to up variable names to 63 characters. But there
is no 13 character limit on job titles - where did you get that
from?
Actually you can do that now if you want but please be consistent
with multiple network versions or funny things will happen! Note
that you have to make it so that the boundaries of things are
consistent across multiple platforms. (I'm shifting to using XML for
sending and saving stuff in the new version which makes saved job
files and such easier to debug).
I'm also getting rid of the set-user stuff which GTK barfs at and
some Ubuntu distros can get upset about.
In addition the new version has a job hierarchy with "super-jobs"
each holding a list of jobs as at present - and this can be to any
depth.
At each level there is a distinct namespace for variables to live
in. However you can refer to variables at different levels going up
and down and across (subject to permissions).
The other big change is that conditions and assignments are moved to
a separate structure, all limits are taken off numbers of those and
you can combine them with "OR" and "NOT" as well as "AND" and also
move bits off into standard labelled bits and refer to those with
overrides.
So you might define a predigested condition "WORKING_HOURS" as "0900
to 1700 AND NOT 1230 to 1330" to save spelling it out with each job,
but in some cases add on an extra bit to say "as per WORKING_HOURS
but on Fridays replace the first time with 0830 to 1630".
Just putting through some mods on the existing version for the
improved hosts file stuff please watch this space....
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