X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/5ea5f6546ea828ef45fa9e380899e8ce291e6dcb..f52fed88b82f585ad3a45c73cb0e567da69481d8:/doc/todo/tracking_bugs_with_dependencies.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/tracking_bugs_with_dependencies.mdwn b/doc/todo/tracking_bugs_with_dependencies.mdwn index ba653fdcc..8b36f1e59 100644 --- a/doc/todo/tracking_bugs_with_dependencies.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/tracking_bugs_with_dependencies.mdwn @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ I like the idea of [[tips/integrated_issue_tracking_with_ikiwiki]], and I do so > >> I thought about this briefly, and got about that far.. glad you got >> further. :-) --[[Joey]] + +>> Or, one [[!taglink could_also_refer|pagespec_in_DL_style]] to the language of [[!wikipedia description logics]]: their formulas actually define classes of objects through quantified relations to other classes. --Ivan Z. > > Another option would be go with a more functional syntax. The concept here would > be to allow a pagespec to appear in a 'pagespec function' anywhere a page can. e.g. @@ -58,6 +60,7 @@ I like the idea of [[tips/integrated_issue_tracking_with_ikiwiki]], and I do so >> So, equivilant example: `define(bugs, bugs/* and !*/Discussion) and define(openbugs, bugs and !link(done)) and openbugs and !link(openbugs)` >> + >> Re recursion, it is avoided.. but building a pagespec that is O(N^X) where N is the >> number of pages in the wiki is not avoided. Probably need to add DOS prevention. >> --[[Joey]] @@ -67,13 +70,15 @@ I like the idea of [[tips/integrated_issue_tracking_with_ikiwiki]], and I do so >>>> Yeah, guess that'd work. :-) -> One quick further thought. All the above discussion assumes that 'dependency' is the +> One quick further thought. All the above discussion assumes that 'dependency' is the > same as 'links to', which is not really true. For example, you'd like to be able to say > "This bug does not depend upon [ [ link to other bug ] ]" and not have a dependency. > Without having different types of links, I don't see how this would be possible. > > -- [[Will]] +>> I saw that this issue is targeted at by the work on [[structured page data#another_kind_of_links]]. --Ivan Z. + Okie - I've had a quick attempt at this. Initial patch attached. This one doesn't quite work. And there is still a lot of debugging stuff in there. @@ -191,8 +196,6 @@ account all comments above (which doesn't mean it is above reproach :) ). --[[W > Very belated code review of last version of the patch: > > * `is_globlist` is no longer needed -> * `pagespec_translate` is already memoized, so the explicit call -> to memoize when handling a define seems unnecessary? > * I don't understand why the pagespec match regexp is changed > from having flags `igx` to `ixgs`. Don't see why you > want `.` to match '\n` in it, and don't see any `.` in the regexp