[developers] Trouble Seeing Test Suite Instances

Alexander Sugar sugara at uw.edu
Fri Sep 12 20:49:30 CEST 2014


There is definitely no 'tsdb' string in my uig/lkb/script file.

- Alec

On 9/12/14, Emily M. Bender <ebender at uw.edu> wrote:
> Alec,
>
> Can you look in your lkb/script file for the string tsdb?
>
> Emily
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Alexander Sugar <sugara at uw.edu> wrote:
>
>> I tried creating tsdb instances with and without having loaded the
>> grammar, and it didn't seem to make a difference. I certainly wouldn't
>> say I've done anything "creative well above the average" with my
>> grammar so far.
>>
>> - Alec
>>
>> On 9/11/14, Stephan Oepen <oe at ifi.uio.no> wrote:
>> >> one thing we did differently
>> >> the time that things worked fine was that we didn't load the grammar
>> >> before trying to create tsdb instances.
>> >
>> > this makes me wonder whether the grammar maybe contains an assignment
>> > to *tsdb-home* or call to the (tsdb :home ...) function?  when users
>> > are creative well above the average, it is possible for the [incr
>> > tsdb()] podium and the back-end lisp system to hold different values
>> > for this (crucial) variable; this would potentially lead to
>> > (seemingly) very surprising behavior.
>> >
>> > i would generally advise against setting [incr tsdb()] parameters as
>> > part of grammar code.  per-user adjustments can be made in ‘.tsdbrc’
>> > (in the user home directory), e.g. calls to (tsdb :home ...), (tsdb
>> > :skeletons ...), and such should typically go there, in my view.
>> >
>> > best, oe
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
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