At 06:08 PM 7/24/02 -0600, Jay F Kominek wrote:
Further, to address a concern lojbab seems to like to raise, (even though I've included this in every design I've mentioned, I think), all changes, comments, definitions, etc will be tagged with a user id, so we can see who has done what. (And no, obviously you don't need a user id just to search and use the database, merely make changes.)
At the risk of shocking you, I have no problem with, and in fact fully approve of, everything you suggest, and furthermore I have approved of what you have suggested before. If I ask questions such as user tagging, it is to make sure that I understand, and that a key feature is not forgotten.
I'm not entirely sure what more I could have said. For LLG to commit to and start using your approach would have taken actually seeing the tools and, if that is what you intended (since I don't remember), converting the existing data to whatever format. That is basically what you did with the wiki - set it up and the Lojban world came running. I never quite understood why you did not do the same with your dictionary proposal, and figured that you just ran out of Lojban committed time for a while and never got back to it.
One could likely search for 'kominek dictionary' in the mailing list archive to find my previous descriptions of what I intend to implement. Sadly, I recently lost all of my design documents except for the SQL database tables. I posted them at one point, just to demonstrate that doing this properly isn't as trivial as a flat file.
Is it exportable to a flat file? It has to be at some point, because a text document is a flat file document.
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