Re: Command line filtering

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 22:31:48 +0100, Johannes Zarl-Zierl wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 26. Februar 2019, 22:02:43 CET schrieb Robert Krawitz:
>> > Breaking this circular membership fixes the loop.
>> 
>> So how does kpa itself handle this?
>
> Paraphrasing a quote related to Heisenberg compensators: "Fine,
> thanks."
>
> Obviously, such a loop should never be intentionally - I guess the
> right way to move forwards would be to fix kpa to prevent this kind
> of loop in the UI and to break it automatically upon loading an
> index.xml file.
>
> I didn't think about indirect circular memberships, but I can't
> think of an obvious reason why they should be any different. (I
> think there was some discussion on the mailing list about circles in
> member groups *way* ago, but I'm too lazy to dig this up…)

Do you have a copy of your old index file with the loop in it?  I
might as well defend against it.
-- 
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