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Subject: MakeNL v3.4.1 Release Date: Fri Jan 03 2014 01:44 pm
From: Janis Kracht To: Ulrich Schroeter

Hi Uli!

>> Hi Ward,
>>>> Discussions are underway on dealing with Marc's other issue with
>>>> MakeNL; he feels that there should not be an age limit on segments.
>>>> The original Ben Baker version of MakeNL would only go back 2 weeks
>>>> before the upcoming week; the current MakeNL_NG release goes back 6
>>>> weeks before the upcoming week.

>>> I have segments that go back years and they don't cause a problem.
>>> REGION21 (Norway) dor example dates from August 22nd 2011 and its
>>> full name is REGION21.238. Region-38 (Yugoslavia etc dates from
>>> Jan.4 2011 and is named REGION38.077, so there even isn't any
>>> serious correlation between the file-production date and the Julian
>>> date.

>> Interesting.. over here, REGION21.238 would have been renamed to
>> REGION21.003 this week upon running Makenl for Tuesday's zone
>> segment.. geez..

>this is, what I've also still wondered once got aware of this processing schem
> ... after a while Ward and me discovered the difference in
> defining the segments mask in the makenl.control file

Ok, this makes sense as I mentioned, thank you.

> with   segment.*   the strict daynumbering schema and automatism will be
>skipped. The segment will be processed, but nothing happens with the daynumber
> extension update

> so there are some advantages and disadvantages of each processing method
> that makenl offers


Yes, I can see that.  I'll mention this to Marc Lewis, R19C.  It may be his
whole problem with makenl not 'seeing' older segments.

Let's hope :)

Take care,
Janis

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