Meta-data/stimulus file/output file linkage

[bruce.labitt at autoliv.com]

gnhlug-discuss-bounces at mail.gnhlug.org wrote on 08/07/2009 06:26:20 PM:

> On 08/05/2009 03:41 PM, bruce.labitt at autoliv.com wrote:
> > This post is a general one, I am exploring a reasonable way to 
accomplish 
> > something.  Sorry about the html for those of you in the dark ages...
> 
> either you didn't send it or the list scrubbed it, but insulting people
> who read text mail isn't a great strategy to get their advice. They'll
> tell you that a non-configurable MUA is backwards and wrong.
> 


Umm, sorry about the html comment - the day was long, I have to use an old 
email client which is very difficult to get it to send text.  (It wants to 
send html, even when I try to set it up in text mode.  I agree it is 
wrong, but that is what I have to put up with on a daily basis.)

BTW the list did scrub my two (2) crummy html bold statements.  What I put 
in was hardly worth making my comment.  My apologies.


> > Is this just a 'simple' database problem?
> > Is there another (simpler) way of dealing with this?
> 
> It sounds like you need subdirectories.  Perhaps there are more
> requirements that would specify a different solution?
> 
> -Bill
> 
> -- 

I had thought about subdirectories.  I kind of started out that way. Maybe 
I could make them work.  When I started out using python I didn't have the 
skills to do many of the things I find myself doing now.  It is definitely 
an enabling language...

My skill levels have improved somewhat, in part due to the occasional 
'corrections' I have received from this list (and others).  I liken it to 
an 'invisible fence'.  Sometimes it is painful.  If I have seemed 
ungrateful at times, please accept my apologies. 

Somehow, I don't think subdirectories are the answer.  Seriously, I think 
some sort of db will end up being useful.  I'm at the stage where I'm 
trying to figure out what I really need.  Coding at this point would be a 
waste.  Once the requirements can be stated, it is a lot easier to 
generate good code...  (Many would rightly argue it is the ONLY way to 
generate good code.)

It seems like a library needs to be built.  I need to categorize waveforms 
by their characteristics.  I also need to be able to search through what 
has done to:
1) see what is missing, 2) try to see patterns in the existing data. 

I'm sure there is a 3rd item on the list, but I don't know how to 
verbalize it yet.


-Bruce

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