Made my case and boss agrees with me. Now to get the third-party dev's whipped into shape...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Geoffrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> I am having a disagreement with a procedure and am seeking other views.<br>
><br>
> A non-free app generates a data file from a database function (database<br>
> also part of the non-free app).<br>
><br>
> A third party application needs to scp that file elsewhere for further<br>
> processing.<br>
><br>
> The third party wants a "done" file to indicate the app has finished<br>
> writing to the file. That's not needed due to how the app does it's<br>
> write then a move to the final location. No problem to touch a done file.<br>
><br>
> Third party also wants the total row count in the data file appended to<br>
> the data file.<br>
><br>
> This is where I disagree. I would far rather put the additional data in<br>
> the done file and not alter the output in anyway.<br>
><br>
> Granted, adding the row count is trivial (wc -l filename >> filename)<br>
> and that last line will be nothing like the actual data lines. It does<br>
> make reprocessing the data files more complicated as they have to be<br>
> checked for the presence of the row count on the last line before<br>
> rerunning the import process again.<br>
><br>
> Other views?<br>
<br>
</div></div>Sorry, I completely agree with you. You should never 'pollute' data<br>
with such information.<br>
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