[Kst] Time support / 2.0.7

[Peter Kümmel]

On 24.10.2012 22:37, Nicolas Brisset wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been thinking a bit more about what we still have to do to have good time support and I think it is quite a lot.
> I see the following options:
> 1) we do some more testing on 2.0.7 and ship it as is regarding time support, which still needs to be improved in subsequent versions

Even if not complete: Release early, release often
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_early,_release_often

Released version should not be buggy, but could miss some features.


> 2) while we're at it, we take some more time and try to finish a first more or less complete implementation of time support
> 3) we deactivate what we have to avoid raising complaints/questions from users, release 2.0.7 without real support for time and keep that for 2.0.8
>
> My impression is that 2.0.7 already brings a lot of fixes and I'm not too happy about releasing it with incomplete time support, nor postponing it too much.
> So I'd go for 3)
> Are there other opinions out there?
>
> Nicolas
>
> P.S.: to add proper time support, we need to clarify the following points in my opinion. Feel free to add those I may have missed so that we have a sort of roadmap:
> - what options do we really want to support for ASCII (I think we'll need more than there currently is)
> - what to do about other datasources (Barth started with vector names being time or temps, but it's just a first shot I think)
> - how to enter ranges in time formats
> - how to convert between time and samples (there are provisions in datasource.h, but it's clearly not mature)
> - how to properly integrate that into the datawizard so that the user does not get confused
>
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