Survex 1.1.16 development snapshot uploaded

[Nick Edwards]

Builds fine on OSX (10.6.7) and aven works again (aven from the build
on the website hasn't worked since OSX 10.4 or so, and I haven't
succeeded in building from source before). Trying to play around with
the "Presentation" feature causes aven to crash whenever I click
"Play", but everything else seems to work fine. Nice to be able to
look at .3d files again :)

Cheers,

Nick

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:07:33AM +0100, David Loeffler wrote:
>> It's fair enough if the current version is a bit more fascist about
>> dates than 1.0 versions were; but if the errors weren't fatal, why
>> weren't any output files produced? How do I force it to ignore the
>> non-fatal errors and write a 3d file anyway? The full transcript
>> (below) makes it clear that the actual calculations succeeded and
>> hence cavern knows perfectly well where the stations are, it's just
>> sulking and refusing to output them to a file!
>
> The terminology here is that a "fatal error" is one which means that the
> program simply can't continue (so something like a disk error, or
> running out of memory).  An non-fatal error is only non-fatal in that
> we don't have to bail out right away - there's nothing which completely
> prevents further progress.
>
> (I'm not sure this is actually a useful way to think about it - this has
> raised similar questions before (i.e. "why doesn't it produce files if
> the errors are non-fatal?").  Probably just dropping "non-fatal" here
> would actually be clearer.)
>
> The main reason we keep going is to show further errors, so the user can
> see everything which needs fixing at once, avoiding the extremely
> irritating syndrome where they get to fix just one error for each
> reprocessing.
>
> I can see a case for a bad date being a warning - the real mitigating
> factor is that cavern used to be less fussy here, so there are datasets
> which used to process but no longer do.
>
> Cheers,
>    Olly
>
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