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mkphlog v0.5 and the Hundred-Year Bug |
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Tuesday Aug 7 9:12:20 2012 |
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Well, another mkphlog release is out. This one is just a bugfix whi |
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was brought to my attention by fellow SDFer chals. Basically, if |
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you started a new post with mkphlog, it would not ask if you wanted |
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edit the post with your specified editor. The fix (which was relati |
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has been uploaded to bitbucket and the downloads section of my goph |
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This is not the only bug in mkphlog, nor will it be the last. Howev |
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preparing for the next mkphlog release, I found a particularly |
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interesting one. I've nick-named it the Hundred-Year Bug. Since mkp |
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creates post directories only using the last two digits of the year |
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post on the same date 100 years later will result in a naming colli |
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mkphlog will refuse to create a new post. It will only insist that |
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the post you made 100 years earlier. |
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I'm going to mark this one as WONTFIX mainly because I can't see an |
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practical reason to change mkphlog's structure for a bug most (or p |
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people won't even encounter. Also, I figure that this is plenty of |
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case anyone plans to live more than 100 years, or if anyone who wan |
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create a phlog which is passed down from generation to generation. |
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(That one actually isn't such a bad idea, but I doubt I'll even liv |
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for 80 more years, much less 100) |
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It's also worth mentioning that pharc, chals's phlog archiver, avoi |
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problem entirely since it archives each year's posts in its own dir |
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(which uses the full year as the directory name). Even if your not |
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living for approximately 100 more years, I still suggest you check |
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because it's quite useful! |
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Happy Phlogging! and may you all live long, happy, gopher-filled li |
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mkphlog download |
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chals's pharc |
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