Re: Update on ongoing work

[Michael Welzl < >]

> On Jun 18, 2018, at 1:13 PM, Marco Faltelli 
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>  wrote:
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> So, concerning the implementation of protocols in the XTRA language, I've 
> implemented Timely (it's almost ready, except for some details) and between 
> today and tomorrow we will start implementing Ledbat too.

Fantastic!


> The question now is: do we want these codes in order to make them run or 
> just to show the reviewers that we can do everything that HotCocoa already 
> does? The second case is much simpler and I'm confident that we can write 
> all the 4 Hotcocoa protocols + Ledbat by Friday. In the second case, we 
> need time for testing them and I think that there will be time just for a 
> couple of all these protocols.

I don’t know what this means. “do we want these codes in order to make them 
run” - do you mean that you wrote an implementation without ever running it?  
So the code exists but we have no clue if it works?
That wouldn't sound good to me ?!?!?!


> Related to this question, in the HotCocoa Github repository I found out 
> that their Timely test is probably not working (it has a couple of grammar 
> errors). So what comes to my mind is that they didn't tested it (maybe they 
> just wanted to show the code?) or they may have uploaded and old version of 
> the code.

Wow… but this is not how things should be done!


> Tomorrow we'll start the Hardware tests too, and we need someone to provide 
> us a detailed list of the tests to be done.

Great, again - I hope others can fill in for this… even via email, AFAIK 
everyone is away?

Greetings from Brussels!
Michael