comment file naming
Bill Mill <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.pyblosxom.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hello all, I want to change the way that comments are named, but I also want to solicit feedback from others before I do. All this comes about because I'm writing a comment administrator plugin for pyblosxom. (it's not yet in a usable state.) Currently, comments are named "<file comment attached to minus extension>-<time of comment file writing>.<comment extension>". This has several drawbacks. First, 2 comments on a single story cannot be made at the same time (imagine a dual-processor machine, or 2 machines writing to a shared storage medium) without undefined results. Yes, it is unlikely, but certainly not impossible. Second, the date in the file name is used to sort the file entries. While this is convenient, it puts significant meta-data into the filename. Thus, changing the time of a post in such a way that comments are correctly sorted involves renaming the comment whose time has changed. Furthermore, the user is responsible for ensuring that no two comments are set to have the same time, which seems a silly requirement. So, if you agree that the naming scheme should be changed, how should it be changed? I will be glad to code up a patch, but I wanted to ask for suggestions on how comments could be better named - preferably in such a way as to not break backwards compatibility. (This would require changing the comment sorting to use the pubDate inside the file, but I think this should be done anyway). My initial thought is "<file comment attached to minus extension>-<randint(1, 100000)>.<comment extension>". The comments plugin would simply have to assure that the file doesn't already exist. Does anybody have a better naming scheme? Comments on this one? Should the number be significant? Peace Bill Mill bill.mill at gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/