Re: Gauge BSE file compat requirements

[Stefan Westerfeld <stefan space twc de>]

   Hi!

On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 11:38:21PM +0200, Tim Janik wrote:
> Hi Stefan et all,
>
> as mentioned recently, I've been looking into writing an XML serializer that can
> help with Beast's future file format. It's coming along nicely and I've pondered
> how to auto convert the old sexpr BSE files to XML.
>
> Also, with some googling, I managed to quickly cook up a Python sexpr parser
> that can read BSE files into Python lists. I need a bit of an idea on how much
> effort the compatibility conversion code deserves, could you please run
> something like the following and send me the counts?
>
> grep -ao 'bse-version "[^"]*"' $(find  ~/  /other-paths-to-bse-files/  \
>   -name '*.bse')  | sed 's/.*://' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
>
>
> So I get an idea of how many old BSE files are lying around and about version
> clusters...

I did one additional exclusion step to avoid counting .bse files lying around in
various beast git source tree checkouts. Here are the results:

$ grep -ao 'bse-version "[^"]*"' $(cat /tmp/bse-files-excl) | sed 's/.*://' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
      1 bse-version "0.11.1"
      1 bse-version "0.6.0"
      1 bse-version "0.7.9"
      2 bse-version "0.5.0"
      2 bse-version "0.5.1"
      2 bse-version "0.5.4"
      2 bse-version "0.8.2"
      4 bse-version "0.5.6"
      4 bse-version "0.8.1"
      7 bse-version "0.5.5"
      8 bse-version "0.9.3"
     11 bse-version "0.11.0"
     11 bse-version "0.6.2"
     12 bse-version "0.5.3"
     18 bse-version "0.5.2"
     30 bse-version "0.6.3"
     33 bse-version "0.7.5"
     34 bse-version "0.6.6"
     35 bse-version "0.6.4"
     35 bse-version "0.7.0"
     57 bse-version "0.7.3"
     60 bse-version "0.8.0"
     81 bse-version "0.10.1"
    107 bse-version "0.7.1"
    137 bse-version "0.7.2"

   Cu... Stefan
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