{"id":28,"date":"2005-06-02T11:33:56","date_gmt":"2005-06-02T11:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2015-09-10T18:50:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T18:50:31","slug":"not-keeping-processing-history-in-headers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/02\/not-keeping-processing-history-in-headers\/","title":{"rendered":"Not keeping processing history in headers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"whydoesnotrsfstoreacompletefilehistoryintheheaderasseplibdoes\">Why does not RSF store a complete file history in the header (as SEPlib does)?<\/h3>\n<p>Not keeping complete file histories in header files was a design decision. The reasoning is that processing histories belong in other places (namely, the <strong>SConstruct<\/strong> files), and one should not rely on the header information for figuring out how the file was processed. A technical detail is that, since history parameters are stored in a hash table, they are outputed in random order. Please let us know if you can think of compelling reasons for changing this behavior. <font color=\"red\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Update:<\/u> the behavior has changed following the suggestion from James Rickett. File histories are now stored in RSF files.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does not RSF store a complete file history in the header (as SEPlib does)? Not keeping complete file histories in header files was a design decision. The reasoning is that processing histories belong in other places (namely, the SConstruct files), and one should not rely on the header information for figuring out how the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"local","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22572,"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/22572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}