Re: [Tlf-devel] Handling multiplier aliases?

[Ervin Hegedüs]

Hi Nate,

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 01:22:04PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * On 2018 11 Jun 12:07 -0500, Ervin Hegedüs wrote:
> 
> Hi Ervin!
> 
> > and you should pass this file to Tlf through parse_logcfg.c?
> > 
> > brrr....
> > 
> > :)
> 
> It's been a while since I followed the logic.  Maybe that's why I sent
> the email first.  ;-)

I'm sorry, that would be just a joke :)
 
> > How many contest could we use this feature?
> 
> I think it would be useful for a lot of US QSO parties.  Not every state
> has its own party so there are far less than 50 as some states do one
> party as a group.  Also, this probably only affects in-state
> participants.  How many Tlf users would this impact immediately, well,
> me, for one.  :-D

good to read it :)

(Anyway, that's sad but true, I didn't found any stat about
the used loggers at biggest contests (CQWW/WPX, ARRL-DX). The
only one stat is the Debian popcorn:
https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=tlf, which is - I think
- not so bad!)
 
> > Once upon I proposed that we sould start to a new direction in
> > config file/rules parsing. I'm still thinking that the best way
> > would be implement some external scripting language, as module,
> > eg. Python and/or Lua. With one of those, everyone can make a
> > more sophisticate rule for every contests.
> > 
> > Here is my original opinion:
> > 
> > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/tlf-devel/2014-01/msg00101.html
> 
> Thanks for the pointer back into that thread.  I tossed a number of
> lofty ideas out there!  This post from Tom is apropos to this thread:
> 
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/tlf-devel/2014-01/msg00104.html

yes, I've also re-read that thread, and I think now I put myself
together, and start to implement the Python config :)


73, Ervin
HA2OS